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Reporting by ProPublica and Drilled has found that even today, the technology faces financial and technical hurdles and is unlikely to ever work at the scale needed to avert extreme warming.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

The answers may avert any potential bad blood between your mother and her siblings — or could make their blood boil.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

LOS ANGELES—Around 2,000 hospitality workers at Los Angeles’s SoFi Stadium have reached a deal that will likely avert a strike during the World Cup, their union said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

TfL branded the strikes as "disappointing" but said talks to avert a walkout were planned for Monday.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

He looks toward me and I avert my eyes, attempting to look remorseful.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

That marks a drop of more than 30% from their May peak and likely averts the disaster commodity experts had warned about as one of the largest crude supply shortages in history began playing out.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

The deal is good because it averts an outcome that has become common: the conversion of a great studio into a diminished version of itself after being absorbed by a traditional rival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

The bipartisan measure, passed by the House on Wednesday and the Senate on Thursday, averts the potential of an unprecedented government default that would have rocked the U.S. and global economies.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2023

President Biden is scheduled to deliver a rare Oval Office address on Friday evening after congressional passage of legislation that narrowly averts the economic calamity of a first-ever default on the nation’s debt.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

She speaks matter-of-factly, but nevertheless she averts her gaze.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Board member Kelly Gonez also defended the new contracts, which averted an April strike.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Oil and equity traders bet that the strait would remain open and a large-scale war averted despite the heightened tensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Compound that with domestic crises like a narrowly averted Samsung factory strike and an overall slowdown in non-tech industries, and things have become rather volatile on the peninsula.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

None of the sovereign defaults over the past decade—among them Argentina, Ecuador, Ghana, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela—would have been averted by a debt pause.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Ifemelu kept her eyes averted from Obinze’s mother, firmly fixed on the black-and-white linoleum on the floor.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On the NYSE, new 52-week highs outpaced new lows and numbered more than 100 again, so this buy signal is still in place — narrowly averting being stopped out.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

Jack Hendry was superb, averting danger more than once with his pace and reading of the game.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

After memory chip giant Samsung Electronics reached a deal with its biggest union over bonuses, averting a major strike, AFP looks at what the dispute might mean for the industry.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Samsung management and its union leaders reached a tentative bonus-pay agreement last week, averting a strike at the world’s largest memory-chip maker, although it is subject to a worker vote.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

As she heard me approach, she turned her head away, averting her eyes and keeping me out of her field of vision.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline