forestall
Example Sentences
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Our family had long used the “eldest daughter” inheritance trope to forestall bad feelings.
From MarketWatch
A democratic restoration cannot restore Athens’s squandered power or forestall its eventual surrender.
For someone who wants to forestall Christianity's decline, Meador says remarkably little about why these people left.
From Salon
The lawsuit also accuses Republican lawmakers of passing the maps through a “opaque, inadequate, and rushed process designed to forestall public scrutiny, minimize backlash, and stifle any meaningful debate or dissent.”
From Seattle Times
Oppenheimer’s notion that nuclear research should be placed under international control to forestall the perils of nuclear proliferation was idealistic, but in terms of geopolitical reality hopelessly naive.
From Los Angeles Times
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