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"They probably could have averted things and we could have got out of here a little bit quicker."

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Conversely, history is riddled with examples of occasions when a well-managed bureaucracy might have averted considerable calamity.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024

The researchers found that offshore turbines could have averted the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan by keeping the cooling systems running and avoiding meltdown.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

Certainly one of the biggest threats is if there’s a loss of confidence in the banking system, but so far the quick response by U.S. authorities seems to have averted outright panic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Yet it was fruitful in internal dissensions, which no policy could have averted.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various