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Meaning of "narrowly avoided"
The phrase 'narrowly avoided' means that a potentially harmful or unfavorable outcome was narrowly or narrowly escaped. It suggests that the person or thing was very close to experiencing or suffering from an adverse event but managed to evade it by a small margin or with a stroke of luck. This phrase indicates a close call or a brush with danger or misfortune
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Olds narrowly avoided the same fate.
We are lucky to have narrowly avoided recession.
You narrowly avoided losing heaps of money.
Loss of life was only narrowly avoided years.
She narrowly avoided prison time.
International incident narrowly avoided.
Because we narrowly avoided a major national disaster.
An explosion was evidently narrowly avoided.
That year he narrowly avoided assassination.
They are still waiting on the water tankers and they have just narrowly avoided a lynching.
You have narrowly avoided ruining this party.
So much bloodshed so narrowly avoided.
The team also narrowly avoided relegation on several occasions.
The slaughter was narrowly avoided.
He narrowly avoided personal bankruptcy when business ventures failed.
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A financial crisis narrowly avoided.
We narrowly avoided a catastrophe.
Rosneft said that the company narrowly avoided major damage.
They narrowly avoided relegation over the next two seasons.
Lithgow never fully recovered and narrowly avoided being burned at the stake.
Lotterer narrowly avoided glancing the wall but later caught back up.
And one of the planes may have narrowly avoided a collision with it.
They only narrowly avoided relegation on the final day of the season.
He himself received three shots and narrowly avoided the loss of his right arm.
There she narrowly avoided being hit in an air raid before leaving two days later.
These are extremely sensitive questions that have narrowly avoided starting wildfires in the past.
This mistake was narrowly avoided on the advice of one of the original development engineers.
Another maritime incident had been narrowly avoided in July.
The country only narrowly avoided a full financial meltdown.
The largest disaster in the American history narrowly avoided.
I have just narrowly avoided an orgy.
He was back to full fitness for the following season as Middlesbrough narrowly avoided relegation.
You may have narrowly avoided the worst.
A direct confrontation between English and Italian is narrowly avoided.
Looks like someone narrowly avoided a mistake of their own.
He narrowly avoided being killed by a Japanese hitman when Japanese Intelligence discovered his espionage activities.
Kaminsky and his family narrowly avoided a stay at a concentration camp.
And it 's something they have already narrowly avoided.
But they narrowly avoided it.
Many players leave, and relegation is only narrowly avoided.
She grinned and narrowly avoided getting toothpaste on her shirt.
In their first Bundesliga season Freiburg narrowly avoided relegation.
The racecourse had just narrowly avoided closure for the third time that century.
The headlines told quite a story of potentially imminent chaos, narrowly avoided.
One neighbor who came to complain narrowly avoided a fiery explosion by walking away.
It narrowly avoided having to impose draught restrictions on PANAMAX ships.
We had a hard time applying regulations which narrowly avoided the contortions of pigheaded government control.
He narrowly avoided execution by recanting his so-called heresy.
A violation of the embargo was narrowly avoided because of the intervention of the Group.
She narrowly avoided prison time, but did receive mandatory psychological counseling.
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