forestalling

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Forestalling motherhood, particularly through the teenage years, has many benefits: Women are more likely to finish high school, continue on to post-secondary education and earn above their peers who have children during these formative years.

From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2015

Forestalling such confusion—and thus making sure that the internet remains a universal network—is ICANN’s main job.

From Economist • Dec. 2, 2010

Forestalling a certain suspension by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, Gooden elected immediate treatment and a disabled status that could extend for months.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forestalling the secrets of the future for the sake of greater clearness, I will anticipate the actual facts and come at once to the results produced.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

"Forestalling the advanced method in Lytton's 'New Utopia,'" said Mrs. Claxton.

From A Heart-Song of To-day by Savigny, Annie Gregg