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Here at Slate, though, we eschew grandiose titles like "editor in chief," let alone "founder."
I eschew the term homonym because it suffers from an inherent ambiguity: a homograph is, to lexicographers, at least, a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different etymology ( bear 1 animal/ bear 2 carry; bore 1 carried/ bore 2 drill/ bore 3 tire/ bore 4 tide wave); a homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another but is spelled differently ( bear/bare; bier/beer; bore/boar ).
They urge Republicans to eschew Jeffersonian libertarianism and to take up the nationalist tradition of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Theodore Roosevelt.
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), which has entered into a formal partnership with PLoS Medicine , accepts no pharmaceutical industry funding and encourages its members to eschew the industry largess through its “PharmFree” initiative (www.amsa.org/prof/pharmfree.cfm).
I don't know why it is that adult readers--including myself, since my reading life (which is to say, my life) is divided evenly between bedtime stories for younger children and serious adult fiction (plenty of dreck there!)--eschew the pleasures these books afford, especially since we are likely to have fond, intense memories of just those pleasures.