(averted can mean avoided or turned away)
"He averted a collision with the bus by veering onto the sidewalk."
"Hopefully the government has averted another economic calamity."
"As the gory scene in the movie began, she averted her eyes."
I had to avert my eyes because the light was too bright.
I will drive on the sidewalk to avert the loss of life. Please avert your eyes while I undress.
avert sentence
I was able to narrowly avert an accident.
"I had to avert my eyes, the sun was so blinding."
A warning system could have averted the disaster. In an attempt to avert a head-on collision, she swerved and struck a tree.
Anecdote is used correctly but there is a mismatch between "a company" and "avert" - probably in the tense.
When Julia didn't want to watch the gore playing on the screen in the horror movie, she knew to avert here eyes and to focus them at the very bottom corner of the screen.
To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster — either way, you are avoiding something
AVERT was created in 1986.
The small aircraft taxied out of the way just in time to avert a possibly horrific accident.
The past tense of avert is averted.
The noun form of avert is aversion.