Example Sentences

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The tragedy of Jovanni's death on that estate, is compounded by its seeming preventability.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024

In February, Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris announced the setting up of an independent statutory inquiry into the preventability of the Omagh bombing.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2023

These three factors, the disaster, the inevitability and the preventability, are all bundled up in the fourth tragedy, the tragedy of the commons.

From Scientific American • Jun. 4, 2019

This is especially difficult to bear because of its cost to the health care system, preventability and lethality.

From Washington Times • May 14, 2018

And perhaps the biggest difference of all, he says, is in their preventability.

From Nature • May 22, 2012