Example Sentences

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The bank has forestalled the risk by deciding to intervene only when the 10-year yield could breach 1.0%.

From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2023

The fuel’s expensive production process has forestalled any mass adoption of the fuel source.

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2022

Ibrahim Araj and 37 other homeowners in Walaja have taken their fight against home demolitions to Israel’s Supreme Court, a move that has forestalled the destruction.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2022

"He has forestalled a number of very serious, almost show-stopping coughing fits."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2015

You see, Mr. Trevor, rumor has forestalled you.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar