VERB | to avert | averted | averted averting | averts | |
SYNO | to avert | to turn away |
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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- The Peace Conference of 1861 was a last-ditch effort to avert the coming Civil War.
- Ancient Greeks also had an old custom of dressing boys as girls in order to avert the evil eye.
- Under orders from the emperor, Wai Siu-Bo time travels to modern-day Hong Kong investigate and avert an upcoming crisis.
- Neem oil has been shown to avert termite attack as an ecofriendly and economical agent.
- Since Huldai's share of the vote exceeded the 40% threshold required to avert a runoff election, no runoff was held.
- It would avert a breach further south, which would release far more sediment and nutrients into the lake.
- She also flew the 5B BJQ Bristow helicopter which was heading to Lagos from Port Harcourt but ended up ditching it to avert casualties.
- In December 2021, McKenzie wrote an opinion piece in the Toronto Star calling for a strategy to avert vaccine inequity in racialized children.
- A British diplomat, Sir Reginald Styles, is organising a peace conference to avert World War III.
- Subsequently, German diplomats have attempted to avert death penalty charges and sentencing for Wenzel, and were reportedly confident in their ability to avert such a sentence while saying she would be expected to serve a long jail sentence.
- Britain also gave all control of Torres Strait islands to Queensland, with no negotiating treaties, in order to avert enemy colonial powers claiming the region.
- After losing a lawsuit, pharmacy chain CVS implemented a system that causes its registers to recognize expired products and avert their sale.
- It is also known for its maize farming. Spearheaded by Mrs Reddie Ndhlovu who is an avert farmer.
- In 1950, President Truman appointed McDonough to an emergency board to help settle labor disputes and avert a nationwide railroad strike.
- This book was released in November 2009. The protagonists in the novel are working to avert an interplanetary war.
- The SWARM are intelligent robotic bugs who work with their human teammates to gather information and avert potential disasters.
- Hypo Alpe Adria: Nationalised in 2009 by the Austrian government to avert a bank collapse, dismantled in 2014.
- Playing for Army Crusaders against Cambridge University Falcons in February 1954, he delivered a hat-trick that failed to avert the Crusaders’ 3-6 defeat.
- In Greek mythology, the Elasioi (Ancient Greek: Ἐλάσιοι, meaning 'Averters' or 'Expellers'; in Latin, 'Elasii') were minor personages with power to avert epileptic attacks.
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