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.
The Fed will evaluate whether “higher levels of capital and liquidity would have forestalled the bank’s failure or provided further resilience to the bank,” Barr said.
From Seattle Times
Biden and European leaders all spoke with Putin several times, threatening sanctions and further geopolitical isolation but were not able to forestall an attack.
From Los Angeles Times
"It may be that they want to forestall potential Russian efforts to block their operations, analogue and digital," he said.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
