shy away
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Meaning
shy away (third-person singular simple present shies away, present participle shying away, simple past and past participle shied away)
to draw back in fear, cringe, back down
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Money is a good thing to run after. It is very important to be financially stable but you have to keep your wrongs and rights in mind. Don't shy away from earning but without selling your soul.
This is the game. We win some, we lose some but I will never shy away from a challenge.
One should not shy away from creating an environment of adaptability.
The tendency is to focus on the worst-case scenario and to shy away from potentially controversial science; it is time, I think, we looked instead at the benefits.
The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled 'genetically engineered', the public will shy away and won't take them.
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?