stave off
Example Sentences
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Facing match point at 8-9 down in the tie break, Alcaraz fired an ace before leaning on a drop shot to stave off a second.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
So they ran routes in the frontyard or shot hoops in the driveway or rode bikes in the neighborhood, anything to stave off the inevitable draw of mindless videos on YouTube.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
OCC officials requested the shareholders sign those agreements in an effort to stave off further scrutiny from Congress, a person familiar with the efforts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But they did have one potentially innovative and surprising, if disconcerting, solution to our national public health information crisis: A.I. has the potential to help stave off a conspiratorial catastrophe during the next pandemic.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
For them it might stave off what he could not help but see with clarity: that the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
