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The phrase "avoiding getting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of steering clear of a particular situation or experience, often followed by a gerund.
Example: "She is focused on avoiding getting caught in the rain without an umbrella."
Alternatives: "preventing" or "steering clear of".
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AVOIDING climate change is like avoiding getting fat.
Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
I've spent half a century avoiding getting stung.
I spent much of my time on the field avoiding getting seriously injured.
They've been drifting around town looking disoriented, narrowly avoiding getting hit by cars.
"They are very good at avoiding getting eaten," said Linda Walling of the University of California, Riverside.
Even people with dental insurance were avoiding getting their teeth fixed because of cost, according to the study.
I've known clearly for years that that is where all my best work comes from and that 9/10th of my life is devoted to avoiding getting there.
Ferguson, the author of many books of financial history, largely overcomes these limitations by avoiding getting bogged down in the minutiae of deals that are now ancient history.
So the best way of avoiding getting to crisis-point is still to uphold and strengthen the rules against nuclear proliferation.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a woman who plans to have two children in her lifetime would have to spend around 30 years avoiding getting pregnant by accident.
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