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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

You can’t know everything that will happen, but thinking through as much as you can will forestall a lot of bad outcomes.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

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

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

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 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

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

The regular demand of the great towns forestalls the claims of the labouring hind.

From In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth

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

“When we were in Diagon Alley,” Harry began, but Mr. Weasley forestalled him with a grimace.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

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