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

“This patient never received an appointment for a cardiology exam that could have prompted further definitive testing and interventions that could have forestalled his death,” the inspector general said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 4, 2016

He resembles Hegel, Fichte, or Schelling, as the case may be, by the purely creative impulse which has met their thought, and which, if he had lived earlier, might have forestalled it.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.