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forestall

[fohr-stawl, fawr-] / foʊrˈstɔl, fɔr- /


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Yet he assures us that he and his colleagues in Congress can forestall the inexorable march of technology to protect us from this fate.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 6, 2026

"The threat of an H5N1 pandemic in humans is a genuine one, but we can hope to forestall it through better surveillance and a more nimble public-health response," Prof Menon told the BBC.

From BBC Dec. 17, 2025

Our family had long used the “eldest daughter” inheritance trope to forestall bad feelings.

From MarketWatch Nov. 21, 2025

Reduced fiscal deficits could help forestall downside scenarios.

From Barron's Oct. 9, 2025

Two men stand at the door to forestall the sisters and keep them occupied if they chance to come along.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

The new contract may help him address its persistent quality problems, and certainly forestalls a machinists’ strike that was threatened to start Thursday, the deadline for union members to ratify the contract.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2024

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

Yet many physicians have the mistaken belief that a longer course of antibiotics forestalls resistant strains.

From Scientific American Jul. 27, 2021

So that, unless Abd el Hamid places himself openly at the head of the warlike movement in Africa and so forestalls a rival, he is not likely long to give it his loyal support.

From The Future of Islam by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen

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

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

At the same time, steady growth and hiring have forestalled a recession, which was widely predicted at the end of last year.

From Washington Times Oct. 26, 2023

Today it had forestalled carnage, at least for a time.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Publication of these studies is far in the future, but in the meantime, the mathematical model offers a starting point for considering the feasibility and possible benefits of forestalling menopause in healthy women.

From Science Daily Feb. 6, 2024

From his putting his finger to his lips, I gathered that he expected her to wake before long and was afraid of forestalling nature.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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