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Definition of "eschews" []

  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eschew. (verb)

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Use "eschews" in a sentence
  • "For example, her label eschews gold, silver and platinum mined with cyanide and mercury, but the Fairtrade system does not."
  • "Nor does the style stray: Stein eschews both portentousness and glibness in telling a “story of unimagined global connections,” one in which there is no distinction “between the fundamental and the frivolous, between things historically weighty and those light as a feather.”"
  • "'The Orphanage' (2007) Produced by Mexican master of the grotesque Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth") and directed by first-time feature maker Juan Antonio Bayona, "The Orphanage" eschews the horror genre's ubiquitous splatter-film aesthetic for a strategy of nervous, incipient doom."
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