The phrase "avoid perpetuating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to prevent the continuation or reinforcement of certain behaviors, ideas, or stereotypes.
Example: "We must be mindful of our language to avoid perpetuating harmful stereotypes in our community."
Alternatives: "prevent the continuation of" or "stop the reinforcement of".
Such clichés and stereotypes are damaging, she said, adding that she and others have the responsibility to avoid perpetuating them.
As digital technologies are woven more closely into identity formation, society needs ways to keep tools flexible to many versions of self-presentation and avoid perpetuating the political status quo through conservative and apolitical designing.
This notion is both fallacious and harmful, and one I am trying diligently to avoid perpetuating.
To avoid perpetuating the story that women judge each other more harshly, pay attention to your own inner judge when you look at the image of strangers.
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Efforts to increase opportunities to confront and reflect on biases are needed to avoid perpetuating a prevalent and problematic stigma.
The indictment also says that in May 2001, after South Africa seized a container of illegally harvested fish that was to be exported to the United States, the defendants "engaged in a series of elaborate deceptions, designed to avoid detection and perpetuate the scheme".
To the privileged "pretty people" flocking to the tech industry purely because it has become the new aspirational finishing school for the upper-middle-class, and who seek to avoid risk and perpetuate the status quo, rather than use technology as an engine of change.
Instead of giving the spot and the yardage gained as often as he should have, Musburger relied on dodges that helped him avoid making errors but also perpetuated a lack of precision you would never encounter with, say, Al Michaels.
"A summons should be used to avoid unnecessary arrests, not to perpetuate them.
In the research of etiology and treatment the psychological and behavioral aspects have since been included, and the new paradigm instead emphasizes reassurance, maintenance of activity and engaging in painful activities; to avoid catastrophizing thoughts and to stop perpetuating illness behavior and depression in order to improve self-efficacy and functional status.
