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The phrase "avoids the question" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is not directly addressing or answering a question posed to them.
Example: "During the debate, the candidate repeatedly avoids the question about their stance on climate change."
Alternatives: "dodges the question" or "evades the question."
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He avoids the question – after all, he came here to "get drunk and make love".
This is the question all the auto-industry futurology avoids: the question of cooperation and control.
He avoids the question and launches into one of his Idris-y explanations.
Your Feb. 26 editorial "The Voters Will Pay" opposes a merger between manufacturers of electronic voting machines, but avoids the question of why we use them at all.
Desan, writing only about the French Montaigne, avoids the question that, for an English speaker, is essential: the great question of Montaigne's relationship to Shakespeare.
'I have a great job already.' Asked if he still wants to be a chief executive one day, he initially avoids the question.
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He was avoiding the question".
Politicians have long avoided the question.
QUESTION FROM TESSA: Mitt is avoiding the question.
When May avoided the question, Corbyn gave the answer – £4.6bn.
It's unlikely that Warner can simply avoid the question.
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