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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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