1
as in repulsed
to drive back
managed to stave off the invaders
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2
as in prevented
to keep from happening by taking action in advance
the quartermaster staved off a shortage by requisitioning more than enough supplies
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Recent Examples of staved off
Nunn and Miller-Meeks represent swing districts but have staved off Democratic challengers in tight races.
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Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
On Sunday, the team staved off elimination with a big win over Illinois, taking a 9-1 victory.
—Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
At the last minute, Hults staved off eviction through assistance from Denver’s Temporary Rental & Utility Assistance program.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
The win staved off a four-game sweep by the American League Central Division leaders.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
Shohei Ohtani waving his team back to the dugout after a seemingly retaliatory pitch from Robert Suarez likely staved off another brouhaha.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
On Sunday, the team staved off elimination with a big win over Illinois, taking a 9-1 victory.
—Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
At the last minute, Hults staved off eviction through assistance from Denver’s Temporary Rental & Utility Assistance program.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
The win staved off a four-game sweep by the American League Central Division leaders.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
Shohei Ohtani waving his team back to the dugout after a seemingly retaliatory pitch from Robert Suarez likely staved off another brouhaha.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staved off
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Like Einstein, Brassard feels repulsed by the way the particles in the Bell experiment seem to have firsthand awareness of each other despite being separated by, in principle, light-years of space.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Aug. 2025
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Kay’s particular diet was a recurring talking point on the show, with condiments such as ketchup and mayo among the foods that repulsed the TV voice of the Yankees.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2025
Verb
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This type of rash or breakout can be prevented by avoiding perfumes, colognes, citrus oils and other common triggers before going outside in the sun.—
Leslie Baumann,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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Humanitarian agencies have been prevented by the belligerents from providing aid, while conflicts elsewhere have sapped the West’s attention.—
Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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That price is a high one and, in lieu of information on their potential backers, neither of the two parties turned back this weekend look able to meet it.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Instead, they were turned back to the locker room.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
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Advertisement The tough talk coming from Democrats now is not all that different from what some of them were saying in March, just before Schumer and other Senate Democrats gave in and averted a shutdown.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Since 1974, vaccination campaigns have averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years old, of whom 101 million were infants younger than a year old.—
Bernadette Boden Albala,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Sometimes, they’d be turned away, and other times, ignored.—
David Rodriguez Muñoz,
Freep.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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This is the perspective of someone who has turned away from a chaotic and increasingly cruel world.—
Michael Jerome Plunkett
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Generated in the furnace of the sun, it’s deposited on the moon by solar winds that are repelled from Earth by our atmosphere and magnetic field.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Like so many here, she is repelled at the suggestion that the cost of peace with Russia could be the loss of large chunks of Ukrainian land.—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
18 Aug. 2025
Verb
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While there, the police allege that Pettway interfered with their actions, cursed at them, was difficult to deal with and resisted arrest when Trooper Brennan Kelly ordered him to go to the front of the house.—
Tresa Baldas,
Freep.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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South Korean authorities repeatedly asked Google to change the location names – but Google resisted and became embroiled in several other South Korean map-labeling controversies in the following years, Ahn wrote in a paper about the topic.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Staved off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staved%20off. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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