We just barely averted disaster because one woman couldn't control her temper.

A riot was barely averted, and the meeting had to be terminated.

He was still shaken from the barely averted arrest, by the carnage.

A work stoppage was barely averted on August 31, when the two sides agreed to a new four-year labor deal.

Ardis and many others had barely averted a worse disaster involving the High King.

And once a disaster was barely averted.

New York City barely averted bankruptcy in 1975.

The savagery only kindles Bunny's appetite for a mass murder that is barely averted.

Relief swells over yet another catastrophe barely averted.

Blade noted the barely concealed hesitation over the choice of words, suggesting a barely averted slip.