stave off
Example Sentences
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Inside the secretive lab shaping America’s retail landscape: At a Florida lab few have ever seen, a team of researchers is trying to stave off a purported epidemic of shoplifting.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Without active efforts to lower players’ core temperatures, pausing game play may not be enough to effectively stave off heat injury, he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The proposals are part of a desperate, eleventh-hour bid to stave off economic collapse in the face of unprecedented US pressure.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Thames Water has been trying to stave off financial collapse for the last three years as it struggles under billions of pounds of debts.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Dinwiddie, who wanted aid from the king to stave off the French, had the report published.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
