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Most interviewees had forestalled their descent into homelessness by doubling up with friends or relatives, only to have those arrangements fall apart.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Mr. Marsh and other aides went out for drinks that night, imagining they had forestalled a crisis.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2019

Speaking in the code that all Poles understand, Jaruzelski was delicately implying that only his intervention had forestalled a Soviet invasion of Poland.

From Time Magazine Archive

So far, with the aid of 130,000 French troops, he had forestalled internal collapse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today it had forestalled carnage, at least for a time.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor