prevent
verb (used with object)
to keep from occurring; avert; hinder.
unpreventable
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a word derived from
prevent.
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
Told in that way, the incident appears to have been a heartbreaking, but unpreventable, accident.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2021
Allowances are made for unpreventable accidents and force of circumstances, but a definite instance of a wholly inefficient appliance or defective workmanship might be most damaging.
From Thurston of Orchard Valley by W. Herbert Dunton
