eschew

Object

• notion: According to recent studies many business owners eschew the notion that their digital assets may be.. .
• narrative: Hamer has kept the rambling and episodic structure of the book, eschewing traditional narrative.
• violence: It is devolved government, but one in which all the participants have eschewed violence, not in words but deeds.
• attempt: Yet Blairâs current transport secretary, Alistair Darling, specifically eschews such attempts at modal shift.
• politics: He never sought high office and eschewed medical politics.
• approach: Here however, the resemblance stops because Richards has eschewed the conventional approach to putting together an excavation report.

Adjective complement

• evil: The moment you eschew evil, love will automatically enter your heart.
• most: Bush eschewed most of the Iraq applause lines he shouts from the campaign stump.

Modifying Another Word

• deliberately: The Academy deliberately eschews any finer-grained assessment scale of reports in order to maintain the principal of proportionality.
• largely: Looks at a scheme in Angola which largely eschews air-conditioning in favor of a more natural solution.
• completely: He focuses on the kernel, and on code and quality, and almost completely eschews politics.
• generally: Also, copyright works are generally eschewed, therefore no copyright is levied on sales.
• always: Bergkamp the man has always eschewed the limelight, preferring to spend time with his family.
• also: She also eschews interpretation of the statute in terms of her own policy preferences.

Used with why or when

what: This could be why I tend to eschew what most people call paperback fiction.

Present participle complement

take: And he probably eschewed taking the launch train because he was worried at the cost of his ticket - thinking heâd already paid enough.

Preposition: in

favor: Inflation is rampant and human life is reduced to being a traded commodity with burials eschewed in favor of mass mulching.