avoid something like the plague

Examples of avoiding

avoiding

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

There are two distinct aspects of controlling a highly redundant robot such that it reaches its goal whilst avoiding all obstacles.
Furthermore, there would be no overflow, thereby avoiding the staining of solar cells.
Until the child made a selection, the experimenter kept gazing at the child, thus avoiding looking at either the visible object or the bucket.
A third way of avoiding unsatisfactory statistics is to confine the area of study to a place for which detailed analyses are possible.
The play follows the chronology of events, mostly avoiding the lengthy exposition of conventional drama.
Any viable modern position, it seems, must try to preserve the important values contained in each of these two extremes, while avoiding their defects.
Secondly, some adaptations aim at avoiding specific tasks during the weekend, such as oestrous detection or farrowing supervision.
Administrators who select facially nonracial admissions criteria "in order to promote racial diversity" are not avoiding the law but are violating it.
Alternately, the stress of a dissatisfying relationship may increase her tolerance of disruptive behavior as a way of avoiding struggles with her child.
In addition, the mice showed no preference for avoiding bright open fields in the first days.
Of course, this does not mean avoiding categorical notions and diagrams altogether, but understanding them in the sense of the internal language.
If they focus on short run macroeconomic stabilization (avoiding a credit crunch) they may increase the probability of bank failures and bank panics.
The dry nitrogen evaporating from the dewar is also used to flush the case, thus avoiding moisture condensation effects on the optics.
The dominant effect is unclear - avoiding costly conflict or bargaining gains.
In the interest of avoiding uncertainty and disputes, lawyers need to draw the line as to when mailed contracts are complete.
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