Keep from
Keep from verb - To resist the temptation of.
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both terms in one sentence
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On Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Bloo has to stop at a truck stop to go to the bathroom, and he wears plungers on his feet "because public bathrooms are so grody" and he wants to keep from stepping in the germs.
Source: Disgusting Public Toilet - Lex Luthor's actions in Justice League Unlimited can be considered this as he describes it to The Question (while beating the crap out of him), who's trying to stop him from becoming president to keep from fulfilling a future where Superman kills him and turns evil.
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Stark gets penitent and hung up on The Lost Lenore while making their current crisis a bit worse, Crais embraces his inner screaming control freak, Rygel can't stop eating, and John and Aeryn can barely keep from banging each other up one side of Talyn and down the other.
Source: Everybody Must Get Stoned
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