prevent
verb (used with object)
to keep from occurring; avert; hinder.
unpreventable
-
a word derived from
prevent.
Example Sentences
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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
The more than 400-page report released on Friday concluded that the Marines were doing routine flight operations when a “catastrophic, unpreventable and unanticipated mechanical failure occurred.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
Told in that way, the incident appears to have been a heartbreaking, but unpreventable, accident.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2021
It is an unpreventable, lifelong condition and the cause is unknown but can be managed if diagnosed in time.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2018
Cohn regards blindness as certainly preventable in 33%, as probably preventable in 43%, and as quite unpreventable in only 24%.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
