FORBEARS Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

forbears

verb

present tense third-person singular of forbear

as in avoids

to resist the temptation of she's old enough to make her own decisions, so we must forbear criticizing her taste in clothes

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Calibrating policy under current conditions is complicated by Warsh's push for a more mercurial Fed that avoids signaling where policy is heading, preferring for markets to take their own signals from incoming data.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
The proportions remain practical, and the overall design avoids some of the visual excesses found elsewhere in the segment.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026

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