avoidance
Example Sentences
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If approach beats avoidance, the next design principle is more counterintuitive: Make the goal small—almost embarrassingly so.
I was also encouraged to confront my avoidance of anything that might remind me of the trauma.
From BBC
Rather than being limited to hunting or avoidance, these interactions sometimes involved close cooperation and management, hinting at early experiments with domestication that did not lead directly to modern dogs.
From Science Daily
Belle Lin: Some of the metrics that have come to the fore are things like “cost avoidance.”
Researchers from Google found that models make trade-offs between stipulated pleasure and pain states, giving priority to pain avoidance over rewards in ways that suggest more than mere token prediction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
