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shy away from
Idioms and Phrases
Avoid, evade, as in He shied away from all questions concerning his private life . [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
Not shying away from the challenge, her response was simple: “Why wouldn’t I do this?”
In that way, Chu takes a stab at making a blockbuster for our times, one that doesn’t shy away from contending with the darkness of contemporary politics and society.
The confection shop scenic design by David Zinn doesn’t shy away from kitsch.
Trump's prospective "border czar," Tom Homan, shied away from the camp talk late last month in an interview with "60 Minutes."
The production doesn’t shy away from such somber notes.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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