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The phrase "an effort to avert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt to prevent something undesirable from happening.
Example: "The organization launched an effort to avert a potential crisis in the community."
Alternatives: "a bid to prevent" or "an attempt to avoid".
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Dr. Gosnell offered her $500, she said, possibly in an effort to avert a lawsuit.
His lawyers had been in plea negotiations with prosecutors in an effort to avert a trial.
Total disc arthroplasty is conceived as an alternative treatment to fusion, in an effort to avert adjacent segment degeneration.
Until Thursday, Western governments had taken slightly different approaches to Croatia in an effort to avert an offensive.
In October 2011, as the futures broker MF Global teetered on the brink of collapse, it dipped into client accounts in an effort to avert bankruptcy.
In 2009 it worked with United Healthcare an insurer, to give diabetics cheaper drugs and nutritional programmes, an effort to avert costly complications.
The move was considered an effort to avert a legal confrontation with a Senate committee that issued subpoenas this week seeking the information.
In an effort to avert further escalation of the conflict, the UN security council is set to discuss the deployment of a regional protection force this week.
They also suspended the annual Dec. 6 commemoration of a 1992 riot in which Hindus destroyed a mosque, in an effort to avert communal tension.
American, the unit of AMR, has negotiated $1.8 billion in annual cost reductions from employees in an effort to avert a bankruptcy protection filing.
A13 India Passes Antiterror Bill Parliament passed a broad measure that curbs some individual rights in an effort to avert terrorism.
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an effort to thwart
an effort to alleviate
an effort to deter
an effort to remove
an effort to obviate
an effort to counter
an effort to eliminate
an effort to distract
an effort to forestall
an effort to prevent
an effort to divert
an effort to name
an effort to keep
an effort to improve
an effort to try
an effort to reach
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