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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoided responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone who has evaded or neglected their duties or obligations.
Example: "He consistently avoided responsibility, leaving his colleagues to handle the workload."
Alternatives: "shirked responsibility" or "evaded accountability".
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I've avoided responsibility for the last 10 years, now it's time to get on it".
In the postwar years both Slovakia and Hungary have avoided responsibility for what happened on that territory, which includes Slovakia's second largest city, Košice.
For decades, Waffen-SS soldiers have avoided responsibility for their horrific wartime acts.
Over the years, Chevron has behaved in a way that reinforces the worst stereotypes about large corporations: it has cynically avoided responsibility for its past and watched in indifference as more people become sick and die because of its failure to deal with its legacy environmental issues.
While many health care workers will willingly attend work during an infectious diseases emergency, history provides many stories of physicians who have avoided responsibility for treating patients [ 20].
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Exxon's response was to embark on a campaign to avoid responsibility that would last decades.
The coding introduced three subthemes: taking responsibility, sharing responsibility and avoiding responsibility (see Table 2) that were subsumed under the main theme: Responsibility in professional roles.
Management actively tries to avoid responsibility.
But the politicians also avoid responsibility.
Fresco said Pistorius tried to avoid responsibility.
This is not avoiding responsibility; it is stating a fact.
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