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avoidably

ADVERB
unnecessarily
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During his sentencing in September, Judge David Farrell QC said he was "avoidably distracted" while driving as he was arguing with his girlfriend on a hands-free device.

From BBC Jan. 2, 2022

“Wolfsburg violated this duty and thus carelessly and avoidably committed the central error by making the illegal sixth substitution.”

From Seattle Times Aug. 16, 2021

But without these standard public health practices, it may never be known how widely the outbreak spread — or who was avoidably harmed.

From Washington Post Oct. 28, 2020

Eleven babies and one mother died "avoidably" at Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria, between 2004 and 2013.

From BBC May 16, 2018

We speak of our own dead in low voices; struck down, we say, as though visible death can only occur for cause, by disease or violence, avoidably.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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