Example Sentences

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They require that remotely operated underwater vehicles be capable of opening and closing key components of blowout preventers.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Angelle said initial staff recommendations to keep the two-week testing frequency for blowout preventers “were not ready and ripe.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 18, 2020

But Sunday’s press conference shows that, through flattery and fear, he can be prevented from preventing the actual preventers from doing prevention.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2020

We hear of kill lines, blowout preventers, negative pressure tests, and something called the bladder effect, which I would rather not know about.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2016

But the men and women who go about their business, doing their work well all of the time, are the preventers of social trouble.

From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson