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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoided calling" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a situation where someone chose not to make a phone call or contact someone by phone.
Example: "She avoided calling her friend because she didn't know how to explain the situation."
Alternatives: "refrained from calling" or "steered clear of calling".
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Iraq has avoided calling for Bashar al-Assad to step down or criticising his government.
Though Dr. Henry held beliefs that was just as orthodox as theirs, he and some peers avoided calling themselves fundamentalists.
Although Romney has avoided calling directly for his rivals to end the race, his campaign team has no such scruples.
But Mr. Obama avoided calling it a surge and resisted sending the full reinforcements initially sought by military commanders.
He avoided calling Mr. Obama a socialist, though he said the president got his "inspiration" from the social democrats in Europe.
Helmut Kohl, the chancellor, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the foreign minister, deliberately avoided calling this "2+4 agreement" a peace accord.
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Sheikh Nimr was, however, careful to avoid calling for violence.
Highlight your counterpart's lack of alternatives and avoid calling attention to your own.
It can cause you to retreat, to avoid calling attention even positive attention to yourself.
The recording was not used here as a means to avoid calling the informer to testify.
He hoped to avoid calling attention to it with his post-midnight signature.
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