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look away

VERB

avert

Synonyms

STRONGEST

avoid deter fend off foil forestall halt preclude prevent rule out ward off

STRONG

deflect divert frustrate shunt turn

WEAK

shove aside stave off turn aside turn away

Antonyms

STRONGEST

aid allow assist help support

Example Sentences

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Her relationship with the camera remains unparalleled — when she is in frame, it is almost impossible to look away.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

The TV Dinner was an early, if unintended, step toward our current world in which unblinking people can’t look away from the screens they carry everywhere, oblivious to what is going on around them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

But the answer to a risk you can’t see clearly is not to look away.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Pitchford asks whether either promise still has real force when the record is messy, the procedure rushed, and the law of review designed to look away.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Some of us look away when bad things happen.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

look away

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