forestall
Example Sentences
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Officials struggled to answer questions about post-fire beach safety in part because of a lack of historical data on pollution levels, a pitfall researchers would like to forestall before another disaster arrives.
From Los Angeles Times
Our family had long used the “eldest daughter” inheritance trope to forestall bad feelings.
From MarketWatch
A democratic restoration cannot restore Athens’s squandered power or forestall its eventual surrender.
Then she drove off to Portland, Ore., where she forestalled her father’s hope that she become a lawyer by eventually landing a job at alternative newspaper Willamette Week.
From Los Angeles Times
Reduced fiscal deficits could help forestall downside scenarios.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
