The phrase "avoiding quoting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of not using direct quotes from a source in writing or speech.
Example: "In academic writing, it is often encouraged to express ideas in your own words, avoiding quoting whenever possible."
Alternatives: "refraining from quoting" or "not using quotes".
Painters cannot avoid quoting, requoting, echoing, succeeding and failing in comparison to the past.
Where market makers previously avoided quoting odd eighths, Messrs Simaan and Whitcomb find them "strangely reluctant" to quote odd sixteenths.
can also be used to avoid quoting the first argument by using a comma before the command.
(Speaking of clichés, a warning to Stern applicants: avoid quoting the Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken". Nearly every American has to read it in school, and it thus gets quoted endlessly. Meanwhile there are thousands of other perfectly good poems that go ignored. Odds are the Stern readers are already rather tired of it).
They find that although the market has become much more efficient, investors are not getting as good a deal as they might.In their original article, Messrs Christie and Schultz found that in 70 of the 100 most heavily traded stocks, Nasdaq dealers avoided quoting prices in odd eighths of a dollar.
I try to avoid quoting executives from canned earnings comments, but given the length of Chambers' tenure, it feels like fair play.
Media coverage initially avoided quoting the key itself.
Among Tufekci's recommendations: Avoid specifying the killer's choice of weapons, avoid quoting his writings or utterances, delay releasing the suspect's name and, to not add to the traumatizing of victims and their loved ones, resist the urge to interview victims and loved ones.
Most photographers will quote their clients on a case-to-case basis, so avoid quoting a price in your advertising.
