stave
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But they did have one potentially innovative and surprising, if disconcerting, solution to our national public health information crisis: A.I. has the potential to help stave off a conspiratorial catastrophe during the next pandemic.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
One project in the works: a buffalo mac and cheese packing 40 grams of protein for GLP-1 users trying to stave off muscle loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Doctors recommend that GLP-1 users increase their protein intake to stave off the muscle loss that comes with rapid calorie cutting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
United officials were quick to make it known the number nine shirt Rashford wore in Poland was not permanent, to stave off any complaints from those tempted to buy one.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Probably just lost, I tell myself, to stave off disappointment.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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For many Americans taking a weight-loss drug, Thanksgiving presents a conundrum: Take the weekly dose that staves off hunger, or push it off so they can feast?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
"In our model, the barrel staves spread out in steps," he says, "each step representing a new limiting factor that becomes active as the cell grows faster."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
France's Emmanuel Macron was on Friday due to pick a head of government tasked with pulling the country out of a political gridlock, in a move that staves off fresh elections for now.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
It means not all the cuts will go ahead and it staves off effective bankruptcy, but it also saddles Havering with high debt repayments for the next 20 years.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
And then one would sing amid the gloom some staves of the Lay of Nimrodel, or other songs of the Vale of Anduin out of vanished years.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jamie Smith and Gus Atkinson at least staved off humiliation with a battling stand of 75, ended when Atkinson was out just before lunch.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Powell’s calm but forceful defense of Fed independence likely staved off larger attacks on the institution and won him admiration and awards, like the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award.
From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026
Sánchez staved off the departure with a call to the governor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
Nevertheless, Bush’s protest at least temporarily staved off hundreds of thousands of Americans from being removed from their homes.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2025
I saw in this the reason for my being staved off so long and the reason for my late guardian’s declining to commit himself to the formal knowledge of such a scheme.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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The company has also reportedly been in discussions about potential concessions in the hope of satisfying Bonta’s concerns and staving off a lawsuit.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
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
The Briton showed resilience in the early stages by staving off five break points in her opening service game.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
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
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He and his roommates would use up to six stove burners at a time to prepare meals together, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
On 17 July, part of the Rustic Stomp festival near Wareham, Dorset, was destroyed by a fire that started when a camping stove set fire to a tent.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
In the early 1970s, Stephen Hawking and other researchers discovered surprising connections between the laws of thermodynamics, which describe familiar processes such as heating water on a stove, and the behavior of black holes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Cooking for hours before a burning gas stove on extremely hot days has worsened an existing heart ailment, Agarwal says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Lieutenant Rahms left his perusal of the stove and nodded to the notary.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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