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The phrase "avoid shock" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to suggest preventing a sudden or unexpected reaction, often in safety or emotional contexts.
Example: "To ensure a smooth transition, it's important to avoid shock by gradually introducing the changes to the team."
Alternatives: "prevent surprise" or "minimize shock".
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Plants must be handled carefully to avoid shock.
This required heifers to go around the barrier to avoid shock and consume silage.
If you cut through the cord, the power shuts down to avoid shock.
The spectacle we witnessed this summer surrounding Mapplethorpe's photographs involved the very responses that White tried so hard to avoid — shock, disgust, hate.
Doctors have long known the consequences of hypothermia for patients with bleeding injuries; standard emergency-care practices call for warming hemorrhaging patients to avoid shock.
Should they allow their own regimes to be gutted, which might pave the way for a genuine transition to democracy or genuine chaos or should they heed the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan and avoid shock therapy, opting for gradual incremental change that might not appeal to the hungry and angry masses?
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Instead, they immediately reclaimed their ability to avoid shocks.
Those primates were literally starving themselves to avoid shocking another animal.
So the plenum struck a cautious course to avoid shocks to the system.
If the economy can avoid shocks like war and corporate scandals, they may yet be proved right.
Expect further rate increases, property curbs and much fatherly advice — all choreographed, like the latest increase, to avoid shocks.
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