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forestall
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Definition:to head off a foreseen problem by taking action or preventative measures
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it flattered her to reflect that she had discovered that the shirt was dry without anybody knowing that that was what she had in her mind. But in spite of her, Tom knew where the wind lay, now. So he forestalled what might be the next move:
“Some of us pumped on our heads—mine’s damp yet. See?”
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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"[...] they will only bide their time and make another attempt.”
“Indeed they will,” said Varys, “and sooner rather than later, I do fear. You are making them most anxious, Lord Eddard. But my little birds will be listening, and together we may be able to forestall them, you and I.”
George R. R. Martin. Game of Thrones (1996)
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You have been forestalled, my dear! It was thought of long ago. It is done in all the brothels,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 11 (Book Eleven)
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And what’s in prayer but this twofold force,
To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
Or pardon’d being down? Then I’ll look up.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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