The phrase "avoid attaching" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to refrain from including or linking something, often in the context of emails or documents.
Example: "Please avoid attaching large files to your email, as it may cause delivery issues."
Alternatives: "refrain from including" or "steer clear of adding".
To overcome this problem, this study shows a method to avoid attaching the piezoelectric transducer directly onto the target structure using a metal wire for damage detection at high temperature.
It also attempts, perhaps harder than necessary, to avoid attaching any stereotypes or generalizations to the broad survey of cities and movements across the Arab world.
The British foreign office asked the media not to release details about Norgrove's personal life while she was in captivity to avoid attaching "trophy value" to her kidnapping.
With increasing evidence of the benefits of mindfulness, more and more leaders have shed their skepticism and become evangelists for the cause -- even in politics, where image-sensitive officials might be expected to avoid attaching themselves to any idea that might be construed as soft.
We were facing a behemoth of a system, which refers to benefits in terms of percentages, as to avoid attaching names and stories to the numbers of cuts, to the numbers of the food insecure, to the numbers of the starving.
To avoid attaching the biomaterials to the Hypafix which causes tears in the biomaterials after removing the Hypafix, gauze was used to cover the sticky side of a 1 cm by 1 cm piece of opsite flexi grid (Smith & Nephew, England) and this was applied over the biomaterial.
Further consistency was achieved by ensuring that only one senior surgeon supervised all biopsies with explicit instructions to avoid attached tissues, specifically muscle.
Kate McIntyre and Brad Huntzinger, the designers behind Oly, a small Berkeley-based furnishings company, have intentionally avoided attaching any slogan or description to hybrid-style products like their new Sienna chair, a wingback that could have come from a grandfather's library except for its elongated back and curry-yellow leather upholstery.
Despite Jim'll Paint It's characteristic humor, violence, and pop culture surrealism, Jim avoids attaching too much of his own personality to the paintings, partially because he is a self-described "socially awkward nerd".
Instead, where a forecasting model has the potential to add more value is precisely when the information is murkier — either by (correctly) discerning a trend a few days before other methods do, or (just as importantly) by avoiding attaching too much significance to one based on flimsy evidence.
When MAA was replaced directly with another liquid and evaporation was avoided (attach-MAA-SSC and attach-MAA-FA, Fig. 1e,f), nuclear shape was similar to formaldehyde-fixed preparations (yellow and pink dots in Fig. 2).
