staving off

Example Sentences

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And a sense that this moral fable is playing out in other groups among the 600 or so mountain gorillas who are staving off extinction in their Virunga Mountains enclave.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The Spaniard also had to dig deep to level at 1-1, staving off three break points himself.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

In the process, they're shifting focus from just staving off the infringement of their rights and freedoms from outside actors to cultivating joy and belonging within their communities.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

Of the 32 antibiotics under development against bugs on the WHO’s 2024 bacterial priority pathogen list, the organization noted, only 12 took nontraditional approaches, which is vital for staving off the rise of drug resistance.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024

Besides staving off economic collapse, the dams are ideologically beguiling to the family that runs the country.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden