Used in a Sentence

avoiding

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for avoiding.

Editorial note

We all agree that core set of values is arbitrary, but that it's build on avoiding pain.

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Quick take

Avoidance.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Avoidance.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for avoiding.

noun

Avoidance.

Example sentences

1

We all agree that core set of values is arbitrary, but that it's build on avoiding pain.

2

I'm hopeful, but it means keeping my current income levels for another 20 or so years, and avoiding any major health or other emergencies.

3

People use the chase for success in various forms as a way of avoiding self-knowledge.

4

I think this saves me more money by avoiding unneeded purchases than getting minor sales on more stuff.

5

How do you preserve the mystery while avoiding the bomb-every-block tedium?

6

Which, naturally, you should be avoiding, too, to ensure immutability and thus consistency and predictability across the entire piece of code.

7

I don't think day to day people need to be actively avoiding soy, or heck even not having the occasional soy based meal.

8

Unfortunately, there's so much hype and marketing, for me at least it is frustrating to determine how much is enough while avoiding the extremes of audiophile addiction.

9

Dropbox using 2.7 is no different from Dropbox avoiding PyPy, they are evidently ultra-conservative (and probably have a lot of old code they don't want to port).

10

More likely, due to the pressure, you will just burn out, start doing mistakes and avoiding work, getting yourself fired with a bad rep.

11

I'm going to be a bit blunt here, as I think you've been avoiding seeing some things because you don't want to rock the boat.

12

> avoiding untenable population density San Francisco is already at an untenable population density.

Quote examples

1

The term "opinionated" tends to have an aggressive and negative connotation/association that you might be better off avoiding.

2

> The term "opinionated" tends to have an aggressive and negative connotation/association that you might be better off avoiding.

3

Avoiding revenue does seem to be a good way to "grow" sans headcount growth, but that seems like a rare exception to the rule rather than a reason to believe that valuation growth doesn't generally correlate with employee count.

Proper noun examples

1

Avoiding notation means that those who could now connect the explanation with things they have already seen is lost.

2

Avoiding notation also means that it's just all been a show, and there's no real take away except that, well, this guy played with beads an counted things.

3

Avoiding pain is an arbitrary metric, but well, the majority doesn't want to be kicked, so let's agree that we shouldn't do that to each other.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use avoiding in a sentence?

We all agree that core set of values is arbitrary, but that it's build on avoiding pain.

What does avoiding mean?

Avoidance.

What part of speech is avoiding?

avoiding is commonly used as noun.