Example Sentences

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The investigation into the 2022 crash concluded that the Marines were doing routine flight operations when they experienced a dual hard-clutch engagement, leading to a “catastrophic, unpreventable and unanticipated mechanical failure.”

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024

The Grammy winner, 59, questioned whether he could have prevented the aneurysm by focusing harder on his physical strength, but learned the condition was hereditary and unpreventable.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 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

Told in that way, the incident appears to have been a heartbreaking, but unpreventable, accident.

From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2021

Yet, risky as it is, mining can hardly be said to be more subject to unpreventable vicissitudes than, say, pastoral pursuits, in which private individuals risk, and often lose or make, enormous sums of money.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)