eschew
Example Sentences
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Her performance in “Vladimir” completely eschewed vanity and instead fixates on what makes this woman go off the rails.
From Los Angeles Times
But the move resulted in Netflix — a company that had previously eschewed big mergers — sweeping in and threatening to leave Paramount even further behind in the ongoing transformation of the media business.
From MarketWatch
In 1925 he set off for Paris where, Ms. Albers writes, he helped pioneer a style of photography that eschewed working in a studio in favor of “prowling the city” for snapshots.
Murakami is known for eschewing the walls that separate Eastern art from Western art.
From Los Angeles Times
He eschewed any stylistic qualities drawing attention to the process of filmmaking, deeming "too distracting" the close-ups of mouths talking and body parts that featured in his early films.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
