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

He said the LAA had drawn differences between Birmingham and Guildford and found there was "no issue at this stage of preventability, which was an issue in Birmingham".

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2022

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