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Nevertheless, some of them come together to try to forestall the installation of the solar array.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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

"The threat of an H5N1 pandemic in humans is a genuine one, but we can hope to forestall it through better surveillance and a more nimble public-health response," Prof Menon told the BBC.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

A democratic restoration cannot restore Athens’s squandered power or forestall its eventual surrender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Sometimes our efforts seemed to forestall the next wave, sometimes hot.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The new contract may help him address its persistent quality problems, and certainly forestalls a machinists’ strike that was threatened to start Thursday, the deadline for union members to ratify the contract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

There is a good chance that this sordid case will now end in a victory for Silva’s targets, or at least a dismissal that forestalls a ruinous, million-dollar judgment against them.

From Slate ● May 4, 2023

The agreement comes after talks began several weeks ago, and forestalls a May 31 deadline for workers to strike.

From Reuters ● May 11, 2022

Yet many physicians have the mistaken belief that a longer course of antibiotics forestalls resistant strains.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2021

The majority is a rule which puts an end to disputes and forestalls the appeal to force.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul

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

So this was largely a case of harm forestalled rather than harm halted: implementation is easier in such cases, as no ‘making good’ is required.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

Wednesday’s decision forestalled any such attack on double jeopardy.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024

But dementia can be forestalled with practical and affordable measures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023

The badger forestalled the explanation that was upon the young mouse’s lips.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Beshear’s refusal was enormously significant in forestalling a real step backward for the abolitionist movement.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 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