Definition of "evitable" [ev•i•ta•ble]

• Possible to avoid; avoidable. (adjective)

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• "I also failed to predict the Catholic Bishops' forcing the president into overtime in Birth Control Bowl MMXII, or Rick Santorum's trifecta on Tuesday night is it time to officially downgrade Romney from inevitable GOP nominee to evitable GOP nominee?"
• "That's why when government deregulalized lending subprime lenders came in and took advantage of the uneducated and corporations backed this quick windfall knowing the evitable crisis that would come but also knowing they would get a parachute or a government bailout."
• "And commenter "Petey" in this Yglesias post makes as good an argument as I've seen that Obama is very evitable, and that Edwards and Clinton are still very much alive."