forestall
Example Sentences
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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
Defendants will come under greater pressure to forestall lawsuits by scurrying to reach licensing deals with writers, musicians and artists.
From Los Angeles Times
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