prevent
verb (used with object)
to keep from occurring; avert; hinder.
unpreventable
-
a word derived from
prevent.
Example Sentences
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“It’s unpreventable, I think, what happened to her,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
Before the results of the state’s inspection report and the county’s autopsy report were publicized, Centinela implied the death was unpreventable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
Miriam Schoenbaum, an ACT board member, says some people will want to dismiss Brett’s death as unpreventable because he wasn’t in a crosswalk.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020
It is an unpreventable, lifelong condition and the cause is unknown but can be managed if diagnosed in time.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2018
The ancient system needed an unrestricted breeding to meet the normal waste of life through war, pestilence, and a multitude of hitherto unpreventable diseases.
From The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger
