Definitions

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  • adjective Preventable.

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  • adjective capable of being avoided or warded off

Etymologies

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avert +‎ -able

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Examples

  • And in some instances, such as the Ethiopian famine, the West addressed this with well-meaning "We Are the World" songs and charity initiatives as if it were some kind of natural catastrophe as opposed to an utterly avertable, man-made tragedy that should have marshaled the world to pressure the Ethiopian despot.

    Thor Halvorssen: Starving For Food, Thirsting For Freedom Thor Halvorssen 2010

  • Now if only more Haitians living in on $2 a day had ever heard of an iPhone and saved up their money for one instead of foolishly using it to not starve, they too may have survived this iPhone-avertable disaster.

    Muti 2010

  • And in some instances, such as the Ethiopian famine, the West addressed this with well-meaning "We Are the World" songs and charity initiatives as if it were some kind of natural catastrophe as opposed to an utterly avertable, man-made tragedy that should have marshaled the world to pressure the Ethiopian despot.

    Thor Halvorssen: Starving For Food, Thirsting For Freedom Thor Halvorssen 2010

  • These days, mind you, any such government-sponsored warning would be much, much more terrifying and, one presumes, be designed to convince us all that the apocalypse was upon us and yet also - conveniently - avertable.

    The Swine Flu Shot 2009

  • These days, mind you, any such government-sponsored warning would be much, much more terrifying and, one presumes, be designed to convince us all that the apocalypse was upon us and yet also - conveniently - avertable.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Murder, at least certain forms of it, is an avertable crime.

    Norm Stamper: It's Time to "Profile" Potential Killers of Abortion Providers 2009

  • Instead, she issues her own equally apocalyptic warning to the nation: if Britain is to avoid Greece's tragic but avertable fate, it must find a place for patriotic women to speak and write in the public sphere.

    The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006

  • Instead, she issues her own equally apocalyptic warning to the nation: if Britain is to avoid Greece's tragic but avertable fate, it must find a place for patriotic women to speak and write in the public sphere.

    Article Abstracts 2006

  • And, you know, it was just avertable disagreement.

    Widow of Otis Redding Reflects on Husband's Legacy 2007

  • The vengeance of the deities was thought to be avertable by the performance of certain propitiatory deeds, or by offering certain sacrifices.

    Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847

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