Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to avoid; avoidable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being shunned; avoidable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Avoidable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Possible to
avoid ,avertable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being avoided or warded off
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I also failed to predict the Catholic Bishops' forcing the president into overtime in Birth Control Bowl MMXII, or Rick Santorum's trifecta on Tuesday night is it time to officially downgrade Romney from inevitable GOP nominee to evitable GOP nominee?
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2012
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I also failed to predict the Catholic Bishops' forcing the president into overtime in Birth Control Bowl MMXII, or Rick Santorum's trifecta on Tuesday night is it time to officially downgrade Romney from inevitable GOP nominee to evitable GOP nominee?
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2012
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I also failed to predict the Catholic Bishops' forcing the president into overtime in Birth Control Bowl MMXII, or Rick Santorum's trifecta on Tuesday night is it time to officially downgrade Romney from inevitable GOP nominee to evitable GOP nominee?
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2012
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I also failed to predict the Catholic Bishops' forcing the president into overtime in Birth Control Bowl MMXII, or Rick Santorum's trifecta on Tuesday night is it time to officially downgrade Romney from inevitable GOP nominee to evitable GOP nominee?
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2012
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I also failed to predict the Catholic Bishops' forcing the president into overtime in Birth Control Bowl MMXII, or Rick Santorum's trifecta on Tuesday night is it time to officially downgrade Romney from inevitable GOP nominee to evitable GOP nominee?
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2012
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The Hillary campaign decided to largely ignore him and simply appear "inevitable" until it was too late and they were supremely "evitable".
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And commenter "Petey" in this Yglesias post makes as good an argument as I've seen that Obama is very evitable, and that Edwards and Clinton are still very much alive.
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Sidenote 1: Most development professionals will tell you that urbanization and the specialization of labor that takes place is evitable as a country continues to progress along its road of development.
Archive 2008-01-01 The Wood To The Sand 2008
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That's why when government deregulalized lending subprime lenders came in and took advantage of the uneducated and corporations backed this quick windfall knowing the evitable crisis that would come but also knowing they would get a parachute or a government bailout.
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And commenter "Petey" in this Yglesias post makes as good an argument as I've seen that Obama is very evitable, and that Edwards and Clinton are still very much alive.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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