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Avoided increases in human exposure to severe drought are also 20-80 per cent lower at 1.5 °C than 3 °C across the six countries.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Avoided four-game losing streak with six third-period goals to beat Detroit.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022

Can Be Avoided Until September, Silvia Says There is a comforting story about the debt ceiling that goes like this: Back in the 1990s, the U.S. was shrinking its national debt at a rapid pace.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 28, 2011

Analysis: How Federer Avoided a Fifth Set William Hill, the London-based betting shop, is offering 10-1 that the John Isner-Nicolas Mahut match will reach 150 games.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2010

At that tasted Fruit The Sun, as from Thyestean Banquet, turn'd His course intended; else how had the World Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, 690 Avoided pinching cold and scorching heate?

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John