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The phrase "avoids the topic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's tendency to not address a specific subject or issue in conversation or writing.
Example: "During the meeting, she consistently avoids the topic of budget cuts, focusing instead on unrelated matters."
Alternatives: "dodges the issue" or "steers clear of the subject."
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Not because he is uncaring, he added, but because Jain avoids the topic.
Dyer's book is similarly queer, and similarly avoids the topic of Lawrence.
In his many speeches, Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, generally avoids the topic of Syria.
Mr Guelleh opposed Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia in late 2006 but avoids the topic when meeting Ethiopian officials.
Although she loves to talk of Africa as homeland, she avoids the topic of Jamaica, the site of a brutal childhood she doesn't care to discuss.
Making unfavourable comparisons between Labor's present and its past is the easiest thing in the world, and it deftly avoids the topic of what Malcolm Turnbull has done to deserve to be prime minister.
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Van Gundy avoided the topic yesterday.
Doctors, like everyone else, avoid the topic.
It feels easier to avoid the topic.
Even Ms. Haller now prefers to avoid the topic.
At first she avoided the topic of the lease.
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