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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. 10, 2023

The vaccine rollout, 1 year old this week, has averted about 1 million COVID-19 deaths and 10 million hospitalizations, according to a recent report by the Commonwealth Fund.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2021

A worldwide ban on ozone-depleting chemicals in 1987 has averted a climate catastrophe today, scientists say.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2021

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

She has averted her face, so that he can see only the outline of her cheek's oval, at his approach; and—what is this?

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda