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was forestalled
verb
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
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Her death that day was forestalled by heroic measures, including a tracheotomy and ventilation.
This was forestalled in June 1982 by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Although Rhodes's agents secured some new territories for the company, elsewhere he was forestalled.
The early apex of Schreker's creativity came on the verge of World War I. Later his career was forestalled and his reputation ruined by the Nazis.
She graduated from Emerson College, in Boston, and planned to study journalism but was forestalled by marriage to William Goodman, a civil engineer.
The celebration was forestalled that night in Atlanta -- even in photographs from that ballroom, the owners look grim and Commissioner Roger Goodell appears exhausted.
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But he had been "forestalled".
Can a war in Iraq be forestalled by semantics?
When the mainland was weak, the question of reunification or independence could be forestalled.
In 628 he and his followers tried to make an Islamized hajj but were forestalled by the Meccans.
They also worry about bone loss, which is precipitated by ovary surgery and can be forestalled with estrogen.
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