avert
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Appeared in the May 12, 2026, print edition as 'JPMorgan Learns Hard Way Art of Payoff to Avert Scandal'.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Avert your eyes from Thursday night’s Panthers-Maple Leafs score.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023
"Avert your eyes," says the theatre manager, half joking, as she escorts me to a backstage room to interview the team behind the show.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2020
Avert your eyes when the sight of plywood gets to be too much.
From Slate • Jan. 3, 2019
Avert means “prevent,” “ward off,” or “turn away.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Of Mice and Men
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students, List 2
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"Of Mice and Men"
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