want to avoid
Frequency: 9.025.0 per million words
To have a desire to avoid something.
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- I really want to avoid traffic this morning.
- We want to avoid any legal complications with this contract.
- He said he had wanted to avoid the argument, but it was inevitable.
- She wants to avoid seeing her ex-boyfriend at the party.
- They want to avoid making the same mistakes as their predecessors.
- Don't you want to avoid all that unnecessary stress?
- As a diabetic, I want to avoid sugary drinks at all costs.
- I want to avoid discussing politics at the family dinner tomorrow.
- The company's main goal is that they want to avoid another public relations disaster.
- After the breakup, I just want to avoid feeling lonely, so I'm keeping busy.