avert
verb (used with object)
to turn away or aside.
has averted
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present perfectof avert (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Federal Reserve is sticking with its fight against inflation, confident that a massive government intervention to stabilize the banking system has averted a crisis.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
UK battery firm Britishvolt has averted collapse by securing additional funding for the business, the BBC understands.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2022
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
And as to the meanness of our concessions and compromises for Union, we have to consider what woes and wrongs that Union has averted.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various
