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What does averting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of avert
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You can chew on the irony of icon-maker MTV presenting this notion when you're averting your eyes during the extended surgery scenes.
But American reporters are studiously averting their eyes, lest they stumble over a story.
The stakes are high, and the rewards of successfully averting the coming catastrophe are even greater.
He's not cited a single instance in which the Patriot Act has proved pivotal in averting terrorism.
This reinforcement of capital controls probably played a key role in averting a run on China's domestic currency, the renminbi.
The Foreign Ministry explained the move as a protective measure aimed at averting any failure of the privatisation procedure.

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