The phrase "avoid assuming" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to refrain from making assumptions about a situation or person.
Example: "In discussions, it's important to avoid assuming the other person's intentions without clarification."
Alternatives: "refrain from presuming" or "steer clear of making assumptions.".
The opportunity to leave behind assets and avoid assuming certain liabilities cannot be achieved with the same efficiency, if at all, in an out-of-court acquisition.
If one wishes to calculate the behaviour, it is essential to avoid assuming that an arrangement will always remain symmetrical simply because it was initially so.
We must refrain from typecasting what we target as a "typical" extremist and avoid assuming that the pathway to radicalisation has any one trigger.
They have gained a second wind after losing six Premiership matches in a row and, even though they will be playing away in the semi-final play-offs, they would be the opponents both Leicester and Saracens would prefer to avoid, assuming they do not slip up at home to Leeds on Saturday and allow Bath to replace them in the top four.
Noting how the government labored throughout the year to avoid assuming responsibility for the debacle, Hugo Young, columnist for The Guardian, said that the national characteristic that the Dome served to celebrate was "the many-splendored British genius for the word play of nonaccountability".
During the financial crisis, for example, OEMs made sure that struggling suppliers survived: Volkswagen bought assets from Karmann during bankruptcy and is thought to be setting the company up as a (largely captive) subsidiary, partly to avoid assuming liabilities, but also as a means of keeping the competition stiff against Magna.
Kevin M. Kelly, the company's president and chief executive, said that despite declining sales, Proginet was able to improve its cash and liabilities position and had avoided assuming debt.
The CAP report carefully avoids assuming that teacher expectations cause student achievement.
(1) We tested five different genetic models and avoided assuming only one 'wrong' genetic model.
Testing the hypotheses in this way avoids assuming these data were normally distributed or had equal variances.
The framework developed in this paper avoids assuming the existence of an interval of birthweights over which there are no compromised pregnancies and does not constrain birthweights within compromised pregnancies to be normally distributed.
