forestalls
- present tense form of forestall (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The settlement forestalls a trial over the city’s culpability, while letting stand a jury verdict against Bueno from March.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2023
The agreement comes after talks began several weeks ago, and forestalls a May 31 deadline for workers to strike.
From Reuters • May 11, 2022
Yet many physicians have the mistaken belief that a longer course of antibiotics forestalls resistant strains.
From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2021
If you feel like you must have an excuse that forestalls follow-up questions, you can always say the pregnancy has been hard on you and you’re just not up for a party.
From Slate • Aug. 15, 2019
So that, unless Abd el Hamid places himself openly at the head of the warlike movement in Africa and so forestalls a rival, he is not likely long to give it his loyal support.
From The Future of Islam by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
