Words similar to stave

Example sentences for: stave

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The New York Times ' lead says that the U.S. will provide several billion dollars of aid to Brazil, as part of a $30 billion international package to help stave off financial turmoil there.
Second, there is the view that worksharing discounts are needed to make the postal service more competitive, thus helping to stave off threats from competing carriers and electronic substitutes.
This very LAT piece is a good example: although the whole story is generated by the Content article, the paper manages to stave off using the C-word until the last--the twenty-third--paragraph.
A major effort to support the Northern Alliance through intelligence sharing and increased funding so that it could stave off the Taliban army and tie down al Qaeda fighters.
Tartar control toothpastes can't remove tartar, but they can stave it off.