stave off
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, supporters of Greenock Morton, the local football team, have set up a fighting fund to try to stave off financial collapse at the club.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Doctors recommend that GLP-1 users increase their protein intake to stave off the muscle loss that comes with rapid calorie cutting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
United officials were quick to make it known the number nine shirt Rashford wore in Poland was not permanent, to stave off any complaints from those tempted to buy one.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
Or did he stumble upon it while trying to stave off the boredom of an interminable faculty meeting, as he told Wideroe at their only face-to-face meeting many years later?
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
