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
If anyone could whip the Americans into shape in under two years and stave off potential embarrassment on home soil, it was him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The reforms were widely seen as a desperate, eleventh-hour bid to stave off economic collapse.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
It was always good to know that there was something under the boards, something to stave off hunger in the night.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
