Sentence examples for avoiding almost from inspiring English sources

The phrase "avoiding almost" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a near-complete avoidance of something, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "He was avoiding almost all forms of social interaction."
Alternatives: "nearly avoiding" or "practically avoiding".

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Mr. Bush, the establishment candidate, emphasized his religious beliefs from the start while avoiding almost until the end detailed comments on divisive issues like abortion.

Her technique for keeping her subway job, and earning $50 to $60 during a long, loud, tense 10-hour day, involves studiously avoiding almost everything that her instincts tell her to do to sell more.

In it, she describes the wedding to her third husband, his "face swollen from two days of drinking"; adulterous affairs so irresistible that she could only avoid them by avoiding "almost any contact with married men"; and an affair with her mother's oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

It is estimated to process 6800 tonnes of MSW a day and produce up to 19 MW of electricity capacity, avoiding almost one million tonnes of CO2 eq per year.

He did it by avoiding almost any divisive social topic.

In the area of avoiding, almost all students said that smoking (93.7%), using drugs prescribed by a doctor (79%), and trying to stay away from home (66.1%) were used often or always, whereas 43.2% reported seldom or never "trying to see the good things" (Table 15).

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I avoided almost everyone.

(The subject of Twitter was avoided almost entirely).

The energy-union document coquettishly avoids almost all mention of Russia, but the target is clear.

For example, I avoid almost any type of backup solution that involves data compression, even though compression speeds the backup process by squeezing more files onto fewer disks.

The policy change might not sound much, but it in effect allows the store to avoid almost all price matching of electrical items – because John Lewis has adopted a policy of offering two-year warranties on almost every such item.

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