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Reporting by ProPublica and Drilled has found that even today, the technology faces financial and technical hurdles and is unlikely to ever work at the scale needed to avert extreme warming.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

The answers may avert any potential bad blood between your mother and her siblings — or could make their blood boil.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

The move by TotalEnergies has so far helped avert mass protests, as surging profits make it a target for a windfall tax.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Konate returned early from compassionate leave to help Liverpool avert an injury crisis at the end of January but the centre-back conceded that things were never quite right.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

The secretary, Mrs. Kay, even the assistant headmaster, Mr. Waters, with his tartan tie, avert their eyes.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

But for now, there’s a plan that averts shutdown impacts at the IRS.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026

The deal is good because it averts an outcome that has become common: the conversion of a great studio into a diminished version of itself after being absorbed by a traditional rival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

The deal averts a trial that had been scheduled for this summer over allegations that became a #MeToo cause for Kesha’s supporters and came to involve a lineup of music industry luminaries.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

President Biden is scheduled to deliver a rare Oval Office address on Friday evening after congressional passage of legislation that narrowly averts the economic calamity of a first-ever default on the nation’s debt.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

She speaks matter-of-factly, but nevertheless she averts her gaze.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Major conflicts were averted, and so perhaps was another gathering next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The development comes after summer strikes at Glasgow and Edinburgh airports were averted after new deals were struck.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Compound that with domestic crises like a narrowly averted Samsung factory strike and an overall slowdown in non-tech industries, and things have become rather volatile on the peninsula.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

None of the sovereign defaults over the past decade—among them Argentina, Ecuador, Ghana, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela—would have been averted by a debt pause.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Later that day, Emily averted her eyes from Mr. Quisling when she walked into social studies.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

On the NYSE, new 52-week highs outpaced new lows and numbered more than 100 again, so this buy signal is still in place — narrowly averting being stopped out.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

California politicians and power executives were hyperfocused on averting the need for more blackouts, then took many months to figure out how to stabilize the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Two 24-hour strikes by London Underground drivers will go ahead on Tuesday and Thursday, as talks aimed at averting the action have broken down, the BBC understands.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

Samsung Electronics and its workers' union resumed talks Wednesday with South Korea's labour minister mediating, after earlier talks aimed at averting a strike collapsed.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

You can see faint stars and other objects by averting your vision slightly.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan