Examples of avert

• One study (7) estimated that for an experienced sports surgeon, 4% of the arthroscopies could have been averted compared with 14% for the other physicians.

• A source of variation among studies estimating the proportion of potentially avoidable arthroscopies is the criteria used to consider that the procedure would be averted.

• One motivation for combating genetic disease is the hope of saving money by averting births of infants with costly disorders.

• In the results section, the authors estimate the number of cases of childhood morbidity that could be averted in each pollution clean-up scenario.

• The panoptic state had no intention of averting its gaze once it reached the threshold of the family home.

• Still, a modest expansion of day-care provision was projected to allow women to work, thus averting the feared shortage of labour in the industrial sector.

• He averted syncope by tensing the muscle of his arms and legs or bending forwards as if to tie his shoelaces.

• Usually, though, this relationship averts the greater harm of the child's lacking all parental relations.