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At 15, Skye sought to be legally emancipated because other child actors had done the same as a means of averting the legal requirements of minors on set.

But I confess that I've been worried that too many Americans have been averting their gaze in order to maintain some sense of emotional equilibrium.

From Salon

Google’s YouTube and Paramount Global have struck a new distribution contract, averting a threatened blackout of CBS and other television channels for nearly 8 million YouTube TV customers.

Over the course of a decade, this could amount to spending $185.1 billion less on healthcare and averting almost 18.3 million hospitalizations.

From Salon

He also said both Traoré and Goossens were hoping to "find an agreement in the interests of the child", thus averting a new prison sentence.

From BBC

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