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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoiding exactly" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where precision in avoiding something is being emphasized, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "She was focused on avoiding exactly what had happened last time."
Alternatives: "steering clear of" or "preventing precisely".
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As the destroyer Cole pulled into Aden, its crew was under orders to follow a secret security plan aimed at avoiding exactly the kind of attack that killed 17 sailors on Oct 12.
Somehow Kennedy found herself shoved into the 24/7 media spotlight and then had to make the high-profile rounds of upstate, snow-belt cities to convince people she was something more than they thought she was -- the sole survivor of the Kennedy/Camelot era who had spent most of her life avoiding exactly this type of notoreity.
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The city administration says it wants to avoid exactly that.
Ms. Barton was one of their own, trained to avoid exactly what she did.
Cable companies and cellphone networks are very eager to avoid exactly the kind of regulations which network neutrality would impose.
(For parents keen on enrolling their children in wholesome activities to secure a respectable future and avoid exactly what became of Keith Richards, keep in mind: he was a choirboy, too).
(Perhaps to avoid exactly this type of comparison, the filmmakers insist that 2016's Ben-Hur is a new adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel, not a remake of the 1959 film).
A10 Cole's Security Questioned The crew of the bombed destroyer was under orders to follow a secret security plan intended to avoid exactly the kind of attack that killed 17 sailors on Oct. 12.
This is why Conservatives are calling for an explicit annual limit on the numbers coming here from outside the EU so that we can avoid exactly the sort of problems she is talking about".
That was a little more than three years ago, before the market crash, when he was still riding improbably high, and devoting his life — at the expense of sleep and nutrition — to helping other athletes avoid exactly the pitfalls that have since ensnared him.
There is also an exemption for smaller ISPs with up to hundreds of thousands of subscribers to avoid exactly this outcome.
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