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To attribute qualities onto another person, often a celebrity in the news, so as to avoid acknowledging these same qualities within oneself: [as verb.
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Even negative attention is attention, so it is best to avoid acknowledging tantrums altogether.
It may be distasteful to some, but as long as the establishment continues to avoid acknowledging this history, it will flourish underground.
The psychiatrist concluded that Mr. Schiff became delusional, believing he alone could properly interpret the tax code, as a way to avoid acknowledging reality.
Several coroners' reports into suicides have mentioned benefits decisions as a contributory factor, but ministers have always been careful to avoid acknowledging a link.
Cognitive dissonance allows people to avoid acknowledging abusive tendencies in their relationships.
This may result in negotiating a shared model but if the differences are irreconcilable, the clinician can acknowledge them and work with the patient in a manner so as to avoid conflicts and thus maximise the chances of compliance to the clinician's treatment.
Candidates themselves would avoid being seen slinging mud, if possible, so as to avoid coming across as undignified or desperate.
We structured our project this way so as to avoid timing constraints.
A submesh region is then allocated to each subgraph so as to avoid long distance communication.
Some were given orders not to fight, so as to avoid a massacre.
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