eschew
Example Sentences
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Starting out as documentarians, the Dardenne brothers have long fashioned their social-realist narratives as stripped-down affairs, eschewing music scores and shooting the scenes in long takes with a minimum of fuss.
From Los Angeles Times
Tesla’s technology relies on only eight cameras to see the world, eschewing the cost and computational load of lidar and other sensors.
Oakley—who still throws on a sports jacket and eschews denim when he’s flying—thinks Duffy’s push is a “noble idea” that likely won’t move the needle as long as flying remains “cheap but unpleasant.”
His buildings eschewed columns, boasting few straight lines as they swelled and curved, appearing untethered to the land on which they stood.
But surely the passage attests to attitude, not practice, for could Marcus have really eschewed bodyguards?
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