prevent
verb (used with object)
to keep from occurring; avert; hinder.
unpreventable
-
a word derived from
prevent.
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
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
As a Nov. 9, 1881, story in The Washington Post put it: “Washington has a scapegoat upon whose back is placed the burden of all undefinable and unpreventable ills. It is called malaria.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2022
It is an unpreventable, lifelong condition and the cause is unknown but can be managed if diagnosed in time.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2018
Dynamic Quality Lacking Leaving out of consideration most exceptional, unpreventable bad luck, the worthy man who fails in life is to blame.
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
