The phrase "and try to avert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to prevent or avoid a particular situation or outcome.
Example: "We must act quickly and try to avert a crisis before it escalates."
Alternatives: "and attempt to prevent" or "and work to avoid".
World leaders flew into South Korea last night to meet and try to avert an international "currency war".
The driver, a 57-year-old Stockport man called John Axon, ordered the fireman Ron Scanlon to jump to safety, but as the train hurtled downhill towards Chapel-en-le-Frith, Axon himself clung to the boiling footplate to warn the Doves Hole signalman to clear the track and try to avert tragedy.
Even if the alert was raised at the weekend, the physician would thus have at least 1 day to react and try to avert hospitalization or an impending event by pre-emptive therapy.
Today, the White House cites that report — and its subsequent effort to better regulate Fannie and Freddie — as evidence that it foresaw the crisis and tried to avert it.
Perhaps most important, media companies are learning from the music industry's mistakes and trying to avert broader adoption of piracy techniques.
Fearing close-range attacks on the Jewish enclaves and trying to avert street violence between Arabs and Jews, the army has imposed the curfew, confining nearly 20,000 Palestinians living in the Israeli-controlled zone to their homes.
What a hell of a lot of time we devote to detecting decay, apportioning disgust and trying to avert mortality, always on guard against miasmas of the unhealed, the incontinent, the cankerous.
But it's undeniable that from climate change (with Tesla's emphasis on reducing the use of fossil fuels); to malevolent artificial super-intelligences (with Neuralink); and the threat of global war wreaking havoc (the Mars escape plan à la SpaceX), Musk is readying a large chunk of humanity for a coming cataclysm — and trying to avert it.
"It's kind of the elephant in the room that Governor Brown is supposedly a climate change champion and trying to avert it, yet he's also a champion of fracking," Anna Ghosh of Food and Water Watch told The Huffington Post at the protest.
In one he flew so close to an American plane that he could hold up a piece of paper with his e-mail address for the pilot to read.One suggestion is that America and China now try to avert future such incidents through an existing, little-known, bilateral agreement, signed in 1998, called the Military Maritime Consultation Agreement.
Stalinism held that the enemies of socialism within and without Russia would try to avert the final victory of the Revolution.
