stave
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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
There is some indication that exercise may help stave off dementia, although causality is unproven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Inside the secretive lab shaping America’s retail landscape: At a Florida lab few have ever seen, a team of researchers is trying to stave off a purported epidemic of shoplifting.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Public health officials, however, have advice for residents to stave off illness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Dinwiddie, who wanted aid from the king to stave off the French, had the report published.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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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
There was a hammock made of barrel staves slatted into woven wires.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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An infusion of new funds approved by Congress this year and a waiver of eligibility procedures have staved off a potential crisis that would have left 4,200 back on the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
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
Appoint Kevin Muscat now please and don't consider the other mediocre "did well from limited resources or staved off relegation" candidates please.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
I bathed her feet in warm water and thus staved off the “froch” bite.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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 ABC and others cannot be allowed to regard a penalty as an acceptable price to pay for staving off criticism."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
Working in food, my office is quite literally the kitchen: I write at a repurposed steel prep table, with my laptop on top and Dutch ovens stored below, that sits directly beside the stove.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
All this time Mutti was at the stove busying herself making potato soup.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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