They were words staff meticulously avoided using.

"Even at the height of the hostage crisis in 1980," he said, "they meticulously avoided a direct confrontation with the United States."

Mrs. Clinton had little choice but to use her full name in her Web address, yet she meticulously avoided it in the actual title.

There are ways of trying to manipulate even the sortes Biblicae, but he had meticulously and demonstratively avoided them.

For over a year later, the UNAMSIL force meticulously avoided intervening in RUF controlled mining districts lest another major incident occur.

But he meticulously avoided mentioning Shea's background, the Elfstones, or the purpose of this journey.

Rourke let the Ninja drift left as machinegun fire raked the road surface, but it meticulously avoided Natalia in the truck.

Jaguars also meticulously avoid other jaguars.

Rachel stared at her, for usually her aunt meticulously avoided any mention of Kitty.

Yet Mr. Ge meticulously avoids self-conscious exoticism or pastiche.