Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2021

Charity pays honour to the aged in every respect, coincides with their sentiments, consults them, forestalls their desires, and attempts not to reform in them what cannot be reformed.

From Fraternal Charity by Valuy, Benôit