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The phrase "we tried to avoid" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that someone or a group of people attempted in order to prevent or stay away from something undesirable. Example: Despite the heavy traffic, we tried to avoid taking the highway and opted for the back roads instead.
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So we tried to avoid this.
"It's something we tried to avoid.
We tried to avoid the question of where we were sleeping.
"We tried to avoid making a directional bet on the markets," Mr. Greenberg told DealBook.
We tried to avoid jumping to conclusions before trying every avenue we could think of.
We tried to avoid listing sites that contain a lot of detail about one specific topic only.
"We tried to avoid getting overly cheesy and Hallmark-y," said Jason Bagley, a creative director at Wieden & Kennedy.
In the current study, we tried to avoid this by using a simple detection task to assess hearing thresholds.
While we were there the temperatures sometimes reached into the 80's, so we tried to avoid hiking at midday, especially at lower elevations.
"We went back and studied other cases where it had failed every way that it can fail, and we tried to avoid those things".
(Bob we tried to avoid undue reliance on US law with the South African licences, the movement has finally caught up with the 3.0 licences being based on international copyright treaties).
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