Of why he had so assiduously avoided her all these years.

He had spent the last two assiduously avoiding the man.

It turned out to be easy: everybody was assiduously avoiding looking at him.

"Are you making a statement by assiduously avoiding the discussion?"

Recently, he had assiduously avoided any gathering where they were likely to run into each other.

That task done, she spent the rest of the day assiduously avoiding Stephen.

I attempted on several occasions to speak with her, but she always assiduously avoided me.

In a word, she assiduously avoided being the bearer of bad news.

In his assignments as an assistant attorney general, he assiduously avoided working on anything to do with race.

Throughout the day be had assiduously avoided his pursuers, moving always just a little ahead of their search.