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He laughed at the power of liability law to forestall bad events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

But there are signs of life emerging that could help forestall another historic low point.

From Barron's ● May 25, 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

Officials struggled to answer questions about post-fire beach safety in part because of a lack of historical data on pollution levels, a pitfall researchers would like to forestall before another disaster arrives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

To forestall her, he said, “We’ll give you fifteen a week, starting...”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

“It looks like either he senses something is coming or is hoping this move forestalls it,” said Wilde.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022

There is a selection possible in one's words and actions before another—nay, there is a manner of doing and feeling which almost forestalls the necessity of a selection at all.

From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

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

Then she drove off to Portland, Ore., where she forestalled her father’s hope that she become a lawyer by eventually landing a job at alternative newspaper Willamette Week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

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

The fuel’s expensive production process has forestalled any mass adoption of the fuel source.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

Cora closed her eyes, but a vision of the boy lying in bed, his head bandaged and the big man with the beard standing over him, forestalled her slumber.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

From his putting his finger to his lips, I gathered that he expected her to wake before long and was afraid of forestalling nature.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker