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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoids feeling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's tendency to evade or not engage with their emotions or feelings.
Example: "He often avoids feeling by distracting himself with work and hobbies."
Alternatives: "shuns emotion" or "evades feelings".
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The movie feels like it could easily be a cartoon, but avoids feeling like self-parody and instead more like self-acceptance.
In the medical profession, such grief is seldom discussed — except, perhaps, as an example of the sort of emotion that a skilled doctor avoids feeling.
Inside it's full of tough plastics that give a robust and durable feel (otherwise known as toddler-proof), but they are quirky and colourful so the 500L avoids feeling cheap and nasty.
Then the student understands the nature of the mathematical situation, and avoids feeling stupid for not understanding "why" the result is true.
It avoids feeling anywhere near as bulky as a total hardcase like the Brydge, but don't expect something with the low profile of Apple's Smart Cover, for instance.
By spreading out the battles and letting the action move from one location to another as we follow the expansive cast of characters, the film avoids feeling bogged down in any single continuous mass of armed carnage.
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Cross did drugs to avoid feeling sick.
Other people would do anything to avoid feeling their own anger.
And yet there are many contexts in which we avoid feeling compassion for self-interested reasons.
"According to an old Chinese saying, we should wear enough clothing to avoid feeling cold and eat enough food to avoid feeling hungry.
She found herself losing patience with these authors' attempts to avoid feeling sorry for themselves.
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