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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avert upward" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where one is describing the action of turning away or avoiding something while also indicating a direction upwards.
Example: "To avoid the oncoming storm, she had to avert upward and seek shelter in the nearby building."
Alternatives: "look away" or "turn away".
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I instinctively averted my eyes upward and spied, on a shelf, a book succinctly titled "Men, Women and Dogs".
To avert long-term deflation, and to increase the demand that helps coax the business cycle upward, we belong in the red for now.
Both traffic accidents and AIDS affected females less severely; upward momentum in life expectancy slowed to a standstill, but decline may have been averted.
Although an altitude of 400 500 m does not avert mosquito survival, the low seroprevalence in Ifanadiana (altitude 466 m, 70 km inland) provides evidence against an upward and inbound spread of the epidemic.
Upward mobility?
Onward, upward.
Most people think liars give themselves away by averting their eyes or making nervous gestures, and many law-enforcement officers have been trained to look for specific tics, like gazing upward in a certain manner.
Failing upward?
Look upward.
They too avert their eyes.
They were inching upward.
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