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Example sentences for: stave

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Since then, the city has frozen hiring and chopped programs to stave off a budget emergency.
But just when you start to get impatient with the plodding, one-thing-after-another style of narration, there's a shocker that blows you into the movie's last act, and then a scene in which a couple of former antagonists figure out what stinks and join forces in an abandoned motel to stave off an army of bad guys.
The authors of the paper lean on these findings to suggest that marijuana acts on the brain as other drugs of abuse do, and that users who stop smoking marijuana might indulge in heroin, cocaine, or alcohol to stave off the unpleasantness of increased CRF in the amygdala.
But the evidence that mental exercise per se can increase cognitive reserve and stave off dementia is weaker.
From my point of view, so long as there is no functioning social movement on the left, mainstream politics will continue to be a vast wasteland and my main criterion in voting will be how best to stave off the ultra-right lunatics.