The phrase "avoid less" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly as it combines "avoid" with a comparative form that does not fit the context.
Example: "To improve your health, try to avoid less sugar in your diet."
Alternatives: "reduce sugar" or "limit sugar intake".
Consumers armed with more numerical information might avoid less effective drugs, he said, but the new approach might be good for the industry.
The information can help doctors and insurers avoid less reliable devices, while also avoiding the high additional medical costs of remedial treatments and replacement procedures.
Or a dinner you can avoid?Less is more more or lessJunior managers would do well to follow the same advice.
Earlier practices of delayed surgery that were intended to avoid less favorable surgical conditions have been replaced by a trend toward early surgery to minimize the risks associated with rebleeding and vasospasm.
Children of WIC participants were also less likely to be overweight, suggesting that the food and counseling provided by WIC may be helping those families avoid less healthy (but usually cheap) alternatives.
Therein only experiments, databases and text mining were utilized to avoid less confident predicted interactions.
Maybe we can avoid less-than-sturdy docks and massive wedding parties?
I received an outpouring of emails in response to last week's column about how to avoid less-than-obvious sources of the packaging additive bisphenol A (BPA).
Having lived -- and commuted -- through half a dozen El Niños, including the mega-deluge of 1997-98, I have developed a set of ancillary tips to avoid less-discussed issues with rainy weather in SoCal.
Avoid trying to rush things too fast, avoid less-than-subtle mentions of biological clocks and how much you'd love to have children some day soon, and avoid making hints about getting engaged or what you'd wear at your dream wedding.
The women reported reduced pain, reduced genital dryness, sexual intercourse was avoided less often and orgasm occurred more frequently.
