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Around 70,000 security personnel will be deployed on Saturday, matching the number mobilised a week ago, as authorities seek to avert a repeat of the October 17 unrest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Thankfully, the same capacity for collaboration that assisted our species’ development throughout history could now avert this catastrophe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

But, much like a car accident on the 405 that you instinctively know you shouldn’t stare, I just can’t seem to avert my eyes from the wreck the Chargers have become.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Times reports on the agreement by G7 countries to release 100 million barrels of "emergency stockpiles of fuel and avert a US export ban".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

From some things, it's easier to avert your eyes.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

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

And even if China averts a full-scale crisis, long-term growth will be sharply constrained by a working-age population that will fall by nearly a quarter by 2050.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 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

That has led to higher prices for jet fuel, just a few months after global airlines, U.S. carriers included, averted a major fuel crisis that had threatened their all-important summer travel season.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The call that might have averted disaster came into William Mulholland’s office that morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

For my own part, I thought that if Mrs. Harker realised the danger herself, it was much pain as well as much danger averted.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier credited Machchhar, as well as the flight's passengers, with averting catastrophe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The armed forces are authorized to assist federal and state police in averting dangers posed by unmanned drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

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

He picks his cloak up from the floor and holds it out to me, averting his eyes.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir