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

From Barron's ● May 25, 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

"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

Our family had long used the “eldest daughter” inheritance trope to forestall bad feelings.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025

He had to be curt with her to forestall any more questions.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

The settlement forestalls a trial over the city’s culpability, while letting stand a jury verdict against Bueno from March.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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

If you feel like you must have an excuse that forestalls follow-up questions, you can always say the pregnancy has been hard on you and you’re just not up for a party.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019

The moment a good talker is aware of having broken into the speech of his converser, he forestalls interruption by waiting to hear what was about to be said.

From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Mary Greer Conklin

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

Until they realize that living together, as messy as it is likely to be, is far preferable to the existential fear of foreshortened, forestalled and anxiety-filled lives recycled forever.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024

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

From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

“Thanks, River,” said another very familiar voice; Ron started to speak, but Hermione forestalled him in a whisper.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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