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All three have said since the meeting that they favored raising rates now in order to forestall the possible need for steeper hikes later.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

To forestall this happening to younger women who are currently caregiving, she educates them about spousal IRAs, which allow nonworking spouses to save for retirement based on household income.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

The president said Poland would get 5,000 extra troops, a move that is intended to reassure an ally but won’t forestall the White House’s effort to shrink the U.S. military presence in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

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 ● Mar. 20, 2026

This would forestall any possible rumors of their approach.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

There is a good chance that this sordid case will now end in a victory for Silva’s targets, or at least a dismissal that forestalls a ruinous, million-dollar judgment against them.

From Slate ● May 4, 2023

The agreement comes after talks began several weeks ago, and forestalls a May 31 deadline for workers to strike.

From Reuters ● May 11, 2022

“It looks like either he senses something is coming or is hoping this move forestalls it,” said Wilde.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022

By pretending that his stock sales were mandated by his Twitter voters, Musk forestalls any speculation that they reflect his doubts about Tesla’s future or about its stratospheric stock market valuation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2021

Tante had smiled upon her, deeply, had held her hand, closely, and had asked, with the playful air which forestalls gratitude, how she liked her present.

From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

And a judge last week ordered the town to release video of the incident, a move the town forestalled by appealing Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

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 ● Oct. 13, 2025

Wednesday’s decision forestalled any such attack on double jeopardy.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024

Until they realize that living together, as messy as it is likely to be, is far preferable to the existential fear of foreshortened, forestalled and anxiety-filled lives recycled forever.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024

Cora closed her eyes, but a vision of the boy lying in bed, his head bandaged and the big man with the beard standing over him, forestalled her slumber.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The rate of U.S. inflation could soon top 3% and push the Federal Reserve further away from its 2% target, forestalling additional reductions in interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026

A study published last year in the journal Nature, for example, found that a personalized vaccine showed promise in forestalling recurrence of clear cell renal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of kidney cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Beshear’s refusal was enormously significant in forestalling a real step backward for the abolitionist movement.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

Gill underplays Booth’s mental challenges, perhaps forestalling a diagnosis that could make it easier for us to distance ourselves from the character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

The answer was accepted and amplified by Rav Gershenson, thereby forestalling Danny’s poised hand.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok