The phrase "avoid a pitfall" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to advise someone to be wary of making a mistake or to be careful about something. For example: "If you're going to invest in stocks, make sure to avoid the pitfall of buying highly volatile stocks."
Such studies avoid a pitfall of those that simply observe who chooses to take or go without a drug.
It also turned out to be important to have the bots avoid a pitfall familiar to many players of the stock market: irrational exuberance.
But it also allowed Trump to avoid a pitfall that ensnared his predecessor.
By treating individual images as points in the space defined by the luminance of all of the pixels in the frame, we avoid a pitfall of selective annotation of videos, computer vision, etc. which only consider a subset of the information contained in the image.
The forward-stepwise marker selection method may avoid a pitfall that plagues the greedy SNP selection: if several genetic markers are located very close to each other (and are highly correlated), the greedy SNP selection may pick all of them before considering SNPs at other loci associated with the same trait.
This helps him avoid a serious pitfall, an overabundance of liquid in the pan, resulting in mushy apples and a soggy crust.
Both branches of the second path will help Facebook avoid a fundamental pitfall.
The filmmaker's decision to let the subjects speak for themselves rather than rely on experts to tell their story helps avoid a major pitfall of many documentaries on subcultures: Mermaids is not exploitative and mocking, but instead a sensitive, nuanced portrait.
But if you dig, avoid a few pitfalls.
It might avoid a lot of pitfalls; and it would take care of two chores at once.
"We avoided a big pitfall today," Busch said.
