has averted
- present perfect of avert (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites in downtown L.A., the union’s biggest employer, with more than 600 workers, reached a tentative deal June 28 and is the only hotel that has averted a strike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
A worldwide ban on ozone-depleting chemicals in 1987 has averted a climate catastrophe today, scientists say.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2021
Instead, a concerted and sustained conservation campaign has averted the worst and given a second chance to these great apes, which share about 98% of human DNA.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2019
In doing so, it has averted untold millions of stillbirths, miscarriages, and elective abortions because rubella, like Zika, wreaks havoc on fetuses in the womb.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2017
Heaven has averted the blow that I feared; any other man but myself would think himself happy.
From Don Garcia of Navarre by Molière
