Cuban missile crises.
Maybe WW2 could have been averted?
Allow its merchant shipping to be sunk and its citizens to be killed by German U-Boats.
To argue that the chaos of civil war (or a state of nature) can only be averted by transferring our rights to all things over to an all-powerful sovereign whose duty it would be to make decisions for the good of all
It could not accommodate California, unless that territory was admitted to the Union as two separate states, meeting on the Missouri line. Some say this could have averted war.
Head-to-head competition between Best Foods and Hellmann's was averted when, in 1932, Best Foods bought out the Hellmann's brand. By then both mayonnaises had such commanding market shares in their own half of the country that it was decided that both brands be preserved.
Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
Averted is the past participle of avert.
Averted means "To keep from happening."
No the word averted is not a noun. It is an adjective and a past tense verb.
We averted our eyes from the solar eclipse
they barely averted the truck which was on their side of the highway!
Disaster Averted was created on 2011-11-07.
The Thanksgiving cooking crisis was averted when I found out I could have dinner catered.
A Tragedy Averted - 1898 was released on: USA: July 1898
(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."
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John averted his eyes when his sister walked into the bathroom wearing just a towel.