prevent
verb (used with object)
to keep from occurring; avert; hinder.
unpreventable
-
a word derived from
prevent.
Example Sentences
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“It’s unpreventable, I think, what happened to her,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 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
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
It is an unpreventable, lifelong condition and the cause is unknown but can be managed if diagnosed in time.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2018
Prevention.—To guard against and prevent disease, or to render an unpreventable attack less serious than it otherwise would be, is the highest practice of the healing art.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
