Example Sentences

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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

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

Miriam Schoenbaum, an ACT board member, says some people will want to dismiss Brett’s death as unpreventable because he wasn’t in a crosswalk.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020

Without violating the fundamental laws of nature, this seems to be absolutely unpreventable.

From A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Widtsoe, John A.