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- verb Present participle of
eschew .
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Examples
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There's no glamor or media brownie points in eschewing the celebrity CEO and appointing a relative unknown founder-owner from the SME community to advise on real-world economic reform -- but there just might be a massive payoff.
Les McKeown: The Vital Missing Voice in the Economic Recovery Debate Is Someone You've Never Heard of Les McKeown 2010
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There's no glamor or media brownie points in eschewing the celebrity CEO and appointing a relative unknown founder-owner from the SME community to advise on real-world economic reform -- but there just might be a massive payoff.
Les McKeown: The Vital Missing Voice in the Economic Recovery Debate Is Someone You've Never Heard of Les McKeown 2010
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It differed from, say, the Rand Corporation in eschewing any claim to impartiality of analysis.
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McCain eschewing the “maverick” label is about as authentic as Guiliani claiming 9/11 didn’t happen on Bush’s watch.
Think Progress » FLASHBACK: McCain Said Of Himself And Palin, ‘What Do You Expect Of Two Mavericks?’ 2010
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Truffaut made his name by eschewing contemporary fashions and using improvisation, location filming and small budgets.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Donna Bowater 2012
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Still, the three parts, the futuristic setting, the apocalyptic overtones, the "eschewing" of a type of technology pardoning punishment . . .
Two views ... Frank Wilson 2008
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One thing that Pitcher’s article does reveal, though is that a liberal finds the idea of eschewing ecclesiastical power – which is not much different to secular power – impossible to understand unless it is because the power has failed to achieve its ends.
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One thing that Pitcher’s article does reveal, though is that a liberal finds the idea of eschewing ecclesiastical power – which is not much different to secular power – impossible to understand unless it is because the power has failed to achieve its ends.
George Pitcher bids a cheery farewell to Bishop Nazir-Ali « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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To Drucker, one of the most important things that any organization can do is to adopt what he called a "rifle approach," eschewing "product clutter."
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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To Drucker, one of the most important things that any organization can do is to adopt what he called a "rifle approach," eschewing "product clutter."
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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