avoidable
IPA: ʌvˈɔɪdʌbʌɫ
noun
- Something that can or should be avoided.
adjective
- Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
- Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
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Examples of "avoidable" in Sentences
- Antrim Times Factory blast was 'avoidable' - 33 mins ago
- So your assessment about that war being avoidable is readily debatable as false.
- But a mistake like this, while it's very tragic, really is very avoidable, which is why a lot of these companies make these specific pediatric brands.
- President Barack Obama called on Congress to use the Reid bill as a basis to agree on a bipartisan solution to prevent what he called an avoidable crisis early next week.
- "We are disappointed that 3M Corp. failed to get an excellent diagnostic technology into the market through what 3M's own officials describe as avoidable mistakes," Hotten said in an e-mail.
- President Barack Obama is urging Congress to come up with a bipartisan solution to prevent what he calls an avoidable crisis from occurring on August 2, when the government might be forced into default.
- Of course, there are dangers in avoidable delay; but four years is very short for so vast and revolutionary a change; in all good faith, it might take six, or eight, or ten; I hope Mr. Khruschev will be elastic about the point, provided real disarmament is being pursued.
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