Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
avert .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of preventing something from occurring
- noun the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
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Examples
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But set against those uncertainties, Europe—in the name of averting Greek default—is lurching toward huge and costly policy mistakes.
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It was Wilson, an active member on numerous influential NFL committees, who helped fashion the rules of the modern game and played a key role in averting a players 'strike in 1977.
Mr. Wilson goes from AFL's 'Foolish Club' to Hall of Fame 2009
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To be sure, Brazil may claim that its shuttle diplomacy was instrumental in averting a major Middle Eastern war between the U.S. and Iran.
Nikolas Kozloff: Part IV: What Is the Brazilian Brand? Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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To be sure, Brazil may claim that its shuttle diplomacy was instrumental in averting a major Middle Eastern war between the U.S. and Iran.
Nikolas Kozloff: Part IV: What Is the Brazilian Brand? Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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We need to develop means of handling such health crisis as soon as possible as this would help in averting a lot of unnecessary deaths in the future.
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To be sure, Brazil may claim that its shuttle diplomacy was instrumental in averting a major Middle Eastern war between the U.S. and Iran.
Nikolas Kozloff: Part IV: What Is the Brazilian Brand? Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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The American YMCA played a key role in averting a Franco-German reprisal during the winter of 1916-1917.
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Sex education may not have the influence that many assume in averting teen pregnancy, suggest new international data that find U.S. teens have babies at much higher rates than peers in many countries, regardless of the sex education received in those countries.
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The honored role here in averting rhetorical disaster was assumed by Donald Rumsfeld, who expressed alarm at this overreach, and by Karen Hughes, who often checked our more blustery outbursts.
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The honored role here in averting rhetorical disaster was assumed by Donald Rumsfeld, who expressed alarm at this overreach, and by Karen Hughes, who often checked our more blustery outbursts.
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