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Example sentences for: stave

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Each economic superhero has a distinct personality and style--Greenspan is the shaman, Rubin the Midas figure, and Summers the academic--but together, they stave off worldwide economic panic.
Jordan's King Hussein has gone home to die . He left the Mayo Clinic after his body rejected a bone marrow transplant (to stave off cancer) and his organs began to fail.
To stave off disastrous currency devaluation, the Russian government is tripling interest rates, spending reserves, and exhorting Russian tycoons to invest their money in Russian markets to restore foreign investors' confidence.
2) Republicans are helping the NRA stave off serious gun laws by pushing weaker restrictions riddled with loopholes.
It has been mocked as a meaningless gesture to stave off eager applicants and assuage the Russians.