avoidance

But Federico suggests that avoidance may actually do the most harm in exacerbating trauma symptoms.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Or is it what we call avoidance when we want avoidance to sound principled?

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

The IRS is pursuing cases in audits that look more like tax avoidance than legitimate planning, advisers said, such as people who set up trusts just before selling their company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

It’s a description of a room where groupthink had replaced honest conversation — not through force, but through accumulated avoidance.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

The unique style of scythes’ robes, regardless of the fabric and color, made them easy to spot in public, which made them easy to avoid—if avoidance was what a person wanted.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

In worry exposure the person is told to set a daily time to purposefully seat in a "worry chair" and think repeatedly about the thoughts that are anxiety provoking without engaging in distractions or avoidances.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2016

Superstitions are not free—rituals and avoidances cost an animal in terms of energy or lost opportunities.

From US News ● Jun. 8, 2011

Their little avoidances of touch or tenderness spoke in a language not to be misunderstood, and their eyes told unconsciously all that they refused to say with their tongues.

From The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

These things he learned more by averted glances and partially concealed avoidances than by overt act or speech.

From 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story by John E. Copus

Miss Agatha did not shrink from impossible effort: furthermore she confused the terms ignorance and innocence, and in her furtive avoidances contrived to throw a suggestion of indelicacy upon the most simple of elemental things.

From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young