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."
To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster — either way, you are avoiding something
stop
escape, divert, deflect, avert, prevent
anticipate, delay, hinder, avert, prevent, preclude.
A warning system could have averted the disaster. In an attempt to avert a head-on collision, she swerved and struck a tree.
Ben wanted to prevent the man from falling.
Anecdote is used correctly but there is a mismatch between "a company" and "avert" - probably in the tense.
To prevent injuries, teachers don't let you run in hallways.
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.