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forestall

to prevent something anticipated by taking advance action

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Six example sentences with forestall, each labelled with its topic.

  • A single vaccination round in March forestalled the outbreak that had swept three neighboring districts the previous winter.

    Medicine

  • The team shipped the export button early to forestall the complaint they knew every enterprise buyer would eventually make.

    Startups

  • The central bank raised rates in spring to forestall the price spiral that its own models had flagged.

    Finance

  • The coach called a timeout to forestall the run he could see building, and the crowd settled down.

    Basketball

  • The government announced a fuel rebate in October to forestall the protests that had been planned for November.

    Politics

  • Engineers rotated the certificates a month early to forestall the outage that the expiry date would have caused.

    Technology

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