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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 U.S. energy system is functioning efficiently, helping forestall a global economic crisis that could hit hard at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

But there are signs of life emerging that could help forestall another historic low point.

From Barron's ● May 25, 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

To forestall her, he said, “We’ll give you fifteen a week, starting...”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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

If you feel like you must have an excuse that forestalls follow-up questions, you can always say the pregnancy has been hard on you and you’re just not up for a party.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019

Whoever forestalls me in winning your hand, Between you and him shall this mad moment stand— You shall think of me, though you think only to hate.

From Three Women by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

The fuel’s expensive production process has forestalled any mass adoption of the fuel source.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

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

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

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

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok