avert
Example Sentences
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Next week's strike by resident doctors in England may be averted after ministers offered the British Medical Association a fresh deal.
From BBC
Others tell stories about the race to avert calamity.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
Mass evacuations were ordered amid fears a key retaining wall could collapse, sending floodwaters rushing into communities below — a tragedy that was ultimately averted.
From Los Angeles Times
A government crisis may narrowly have been averted.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
