How to Use avert in a Sentence

avert

verb
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  • He sped up and averted an accident.
  • The diplomatic talks narrowly averted a war.
  • The two sides reached an agreement this week, averting a proxy battle.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
  • In fact, the impact was so severe the central bank was forced just a few years later into a massive reversal to avert a total catastrophe.
    — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Instead of averting a partisan battle, the delay ignited one.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Humans have invented a technology that might be able to avert a similar future catastrophe.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The Senate is expected to act sometime this week to avert a shutdown, at which point the House will have to swiftly take up and pass the legislation.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The Senate on Tuesday advanced a spending bill designed to avert a potential government shutdown at the end of the week.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 28 Sep. 2022
  • More than half of the House is calling on leadership to avert Medicare physician payment cuts scheduled for next year, and to enact longer-term payment reforms.
    — Peter Sullivan, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The Biden administration last week intervened to narrowly avert a nationwide shutdown of the freight rail system.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • President Biden is expected to sign the legislation before midnight to avert a government shutdown.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Those restrictions can prompt unions to be more likely to agree to a deal, as railroad unions just did to avert a national strike, and as the UPS aircraft mechanics union did.
    — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 17 Sep. 2022
  • But many carcasses are composted or buried by humans, which result in more emissions than natural decay, so vulture consumption can avert even more emissions when replacing those methods.
    — Ian Rose, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Both sides have worked throughout the week to avert the 24-hour strike.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But for now, there is still a chance to avert the worst outcome.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
  • The move could avert a high-profile trial and enrich Twitter shareholders, whose holdings were worth less than 80% of Musk’s price at the start of trading on Tuesday.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The Bank of England had to intervene to avert a wider crash.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The agreement, reached late on April 26, averted a strike.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2024
  • Many Israelis have preferred to avert their gaze from the rage at their doorstep.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • To avert a default, the House and the Senate must pass the deal and send it to Biden for his signature.
    — Jim Tankersley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • The bill that could avert a government shutdown heads to the Senate.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Nor does Kennedy avert her eyes from the Troubles, the era during which her novel is set.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The union hopes to reach a contract and avert a potential strike before Aug. 1.
    — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • India hopes to avert a repeat of that, but prospects appear dim.
    — Matthew Lee, ajc, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In the last spending bill, some Democrats had to make concessions to avert a shutdown.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
  • While an agreement over benefits could avert a strike, the two sides still would have much work to do.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Publicly, Biden aides have said the only way to avert a crisis is for Congress to act.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • Yet while the floods may have triggered an increase in the odor complaints, the reservoir’s presence could have helped to avert heavy damage in the area.
    — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That certainly would be an important big step to try to avert this.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • When a body washes up on a beach, Carmen tells her grandchildren to avert their eyes; by then, though, hers have been pried open.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023

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