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eschew
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  • The time has come for this great nation to be a greater nation by eschewing indiscriminate use of foreign expertise and technology.†  (source)
  • Henceforth, if one aspired to be considered a member of the Himalayan elite, eschewing bottled oxygen was mandatory.†  (source)
  • Virtually all yaws result from movements of the rudder, the vertical panel in the tail, but pilots of commercial jets eschew use of the rudder out of consideration for their passengers.†  (source)
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  • Da Vinci, however, eschewed mathematics and cryptology for a mechanical solution.†  (source)
  • It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.†  (source)
  • Guitar, eschewing his recent asceticism, allowed himself the pleasure of waking up old dreams: what he would buy for his grandmother and her brother, Uncle Billy, the one who had come up from Florida to help raise them all after his father died; the marker he would buy for his father's grave, "pink with lilies carved on it"; then stuff for his brother and sisters, and his sisters' children.†  (source)
  • 2:3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She escheweth" in older English, today we say "She eschews."
  • Cedric, munching on toast, eschews that idea with a humble nod but is delighted that someone noticed something about him beyond pigment.†  (source)
  • What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd.†  (source)
  • Puller eschewed both and headed up the stairs, taking them two at a time.†  (source)
  • I eschew Nightwing for Ann.†  (source)
  • The Order is eschewing any form of transport that is controlled or regulated by the Ministry; they mistrust everything to do with the place.†  (source)
  • 1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?†  (source)
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