have forestalled
- present perfect of forestall.
Example Sentences
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The Fed will evaluate whether “higher levels of capital and liquidity would have forestalled the bank’s failure or provided further resilience to the bank,” Barr said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
This includes a foreclosure moratorium and forbearance on payments on government-backed mortgages, which have forestalled distressed home sales, typically at big discounts that weigh on house prices.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
It may also have forestalled a more pressing need to invade.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
These facts translate into a genuine gratitude — in regime-controlled areas — toward Russia, whose military intervention in late 2015 may have forestalled a total collapse.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2017
Whether it was within the limits of possibility to have forestalled you, the woman's heart does not stop to inquire.
From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Spielhagen, Friedrich
