The phrase "avoiding popular" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of steering clear of widely accepted or mainstream opinions or trends, but it needs additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "In her art, she focuses on avoiding popular styles to create something unique."
Alternatives: "steering clear of mainstream" or "eschewing popular trends".
The Quays live and work together in London, avoiding popular culture and choreographing broken antique dolls, garlic skins, rusty nails, dusty feathers, and pieces of liver to atonal, mostly Eastern European music.
TellusLabs doesn't own the rights to any imaging hardware, the company isn't using any proprietary data for its models and its avoiding popular additions like deep learning.
In addition, the vision for The Independent is "to be high-minded," Evgeny Lebedev said, "and to avoid popular celebrity culture.
His strategy is to avoid popular stores like Walmart, where there are often long lines, focusing instead on smaller locations.
Those working to avoid popular votes on the treaty justify their actions on the ground that Eurosceptics are acting in still worse faith.
4. Go Against the Grain If possible, avoid popular travel dates like holidays and spring break because airlines have begun to charge anywhere from $10 to $30 extra at those times.
A statement posted on the embassy's Web site on Wednesday warned American civilians in Beirut to avoid popular gathering spots and to "maintain a high level of vigilance, especially when planning travel".
There have been 10 nominated films before - between 2010 and 2011, when the rule-change was introduced to avoid popular movies such as The Dark Knight missing out on nominations and rendering the Oscars less relevant.
And if the thought of large crowds makes your blood boil, avoid popular museums on the first Sunday of every month, when admission is free and the multitudes emerge.
Outside of school, try to avoid popular hang-outs.
Bloom was hard at work on his next book — "I am literally sitting here brooding on Kafka and the Kabbalah" — and had therefore been avoiding the "popular press," as he called it, but the latest rumors involving A-Rod had not escaped him.
