as in to prevent
to keep from happening by taking action in advance
her careful planning averted disaster
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Recent Examples of avert
Local officials are facing questions about their actions in the years and hours before the catastrophic flooding hit central Texas last week, and whether more could have been done to avert the tragedy.
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Jade Walker, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
Fain announced Wednesday night that the union and Rolls-Royce reached a tentative agreement to avert a strike.
—Brittany Carloni, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to advance Trump’s legislative agenda while averting the Senate filibuster.
—Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 26 June 2025
Thanks to their collective efforts, well over one million child deaths were averted.
—Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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Jade Walker, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
Fain announced Wednesday night that the union and Rolls-Royce reached a tentative agreement to avert a strike.
—Brittany Carloni, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to advance Trump’s legislative agenda while averting the Senate filibuster.
—Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 26 June 2025
Thanks to their collective efforts, well over one million child deaths were averted.
—Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for avert
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Until now, there was no centralized system in place to prevent double billing, which enabled overpayments to go unnoticed.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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Engineering teams that achieve maximum resilience focus on designing recovery systems while investing in observability tools and automation for response capabilities rather than preventing all failures.—
Raju Dandigam,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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“Avert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avert. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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