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forestalling

noun as in prevention

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Example Sentences

Should it pass, the U.S. would have a real budget for the next two years while forestalling any possibility of a shutdown.

The one thing to do was to travel at speed, forestalling possible interference from Hank and Spang by getting well ahead of them.

Beza, not apparently without good reason, blamed the improvidence of Cond in not forestalling the enemy.

As a forestalling of judgment on what is yet to be demonstrated, the word "medium" is a wholly improper term.

When in Florence he made a bonfire of evil books and vanities, thus forestalling one of Savonarola's great revolutionary acts.

He would ask Batoche's opinion about staying away from it altogether, thus forestalling banishment.

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On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to forestalling, such as: opposing, averting, conservative, foiling, preservative, and preventive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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