Verb (used with object) : to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger. ,to avoid falling. From Dictionary.com.
Here's another one: "Most avoidably delayed comic.". From Wordnik.com. [Best of 2007 – YOU Pick the Categories! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
One hundred thousand of us die annually in U.S. hospitals ... avoidably. From Wordnik.com. [Deane Waldman: The Emperor Has No Clothes] Reference
Next year, over 100,000 Americans will die avoidably while receiving healthcare. From Wordnik.com. [Deane Waldman: Avoiding healthcare, are we?] Reference
Although indications are that this alarming rate is dropping, it is still avoidably high. From Wordnik.com. [Sia Nyama Koroma: It's Time to Make Mothers a Priority] Reference
It means motorists who kill while avoidably distracted could for the first time face prison. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
My heart and soul go out to these families who had a loved one killed so needlessly and avoidably. From Wordnik.com. [Cindy Sheehan: In My Life I Loved You More] Reference
For instance: 'What is avoidably awkward about the sentence beginning, "After all, for all his ability …"?'. From Wordnik.com. [You Won't Have Kristol to Kick Around Anymore] Reference
Conservatives enjoy fulminating about the nation and tradition but never actually want to risk hurting anyone avoidably. From Wordnik.com. [Cast Out Of Heaven] Reference
Giving up means another 100,000 people will die avoidably next year and our nation will move one inch closer to being broke. From Wordnik.com. [Deane Waldman: Curing Healthcare (Yes, You Can.)] Reference
Worldwide, the full development of women and girls is avoidably constrained by inferior levels of literacy, basic education and skills training. From Wordnik.com. [Zainab Salbi: Preventing and Addressing International Violence Against Women] Reference
This is not about right and left, this is about right and wrong. 19 troops were needlessly killed in Iraq this past week. 19 families were destroyed senselessly and avoidably. From Wordnik.com. [Cindy Sheehan: War-Hawk Republicans and Anti-War Democrats: What's the Difference?] Reference
However under the new changes, to be set out in a consultation document, drivers who cause fatal accidents while using a mobile phone could escape prison if they were "avoidably distracted". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Hence, it will be licensed by a priority of health principle (especially if the worse off in terms of income are also worse off in terms of health), since an absolute health inequality will (avoidably) persist if we omit to reduce the income of the better off. From Wordnik.com. [Justice, Inequality, and Health] Reference
But the Titanic was doomed from the start, avoidably. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
That way you are only taxing the avoidably expendable income. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Reckoning Australia] Reference
Collingwood at once, rightly or wrongly, avoidably or unavoidably, reversed Nelson's plans, urged with his last breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783] Reference
For all these reasons, our heartfelt tears for Hrant were divided by this development because when we return we had to take side in different "camps" avoidably. From Wordnik.com. [Turkishdailynews Headlines] Reference
"As a result, the taxpayer may have lost the benefit of the participation of qualified, albeit smaller, fund managers because they were avoidably deterred from applying or unnecessarily rejected," it added. From Wordnik.com. [Smaller firms could have run U.S. toxic funds: audit - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
More than twelve months have elapsed, since the greater part of these sheets were committed to the press: and the prosecution of the subject, has been un - avoidably suspended during a considerable por - tion of the intervening period. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses and dissertations on the scriptural doctrines of atonement & sacrifice : and on the principal arguments advance, and the mode of reasoning employed, by the opponents of those doctrines as held by the established Church ; with an appendix, containing some strictures on Mr. Belsham's account of the Unitarian scheme, in his review of Mr. Wilberforce's treatise] Reference
My (avoidably) layman's take is that its strength likes in a combination of a rich set of vowels (10 basic including an explicit schwa, and a handful of dipthongs) plus an unusual syllabet structure (consonant-vowel-optional consonant). From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
There are fome duties which may feem to occafion a troublefome oppofition to the natural workings of flefri and blood; — fuch as the forgivenefs of injuries, and the love of our enemies -, — others, which will force us un - avoidably into a perpetual ftruggle SERMON XXVIII. From Wordnik.com. [The sermons of Mr. Yorick] Reference
3. In general principle, all that expense and trouble of combat activity is avoidably transferable to an English-speaking somebody else, "comme d'habitude". From Wordnik.com. [Afstan: Not too Fighting French] Reference
9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year out of a total Indigenous population of about 0.5 million and this is happening in one of the richest countries in the world. From Wordnik.com. [InI] Reference
A coercive political order, whether national or international, "must not avoidably restrict the freedom of some so as to render their access to basic necessities insecure ” especially through official denial or deprivation. From Wordnik.com. [Human Rights] Reference
No time was avoidably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles] Reference
Are they free from avoidably morbidity?. From Wordnik.com. [Philobiblon] Reference
Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation Agent] Reference
G 3 avoidably. From Wordnik.com. [Olivia; or, Deserted bride, by the author of Hortensia] Reference
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