as in avoidance
the act or practice of keeping something from happening
good crowd control is crucial to the prevention of riots
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Recent Examples of prevention
So, too, will free services that help patients enroll in insurance and access HIV prevention medications.
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Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
Control, command are what’s keeping Hicks from being elite
Hicks’ best season in terms of run prevention came in 2023, before he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Officials argue the loss of FEMA funding could stymie long-term slide prevention efforts that were in the works for years before land movement drastically accelerated last year.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Experts attribute the decrease to a combination of factors, including the wider availability of the opioid antidote naloxone, along with $50 billion in funding for drug-treatment and youth prevention efforts from the national opioid settlements.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 15 May 2025
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Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
Control, command are what’s keeping Hicks from being elite
Hicks’ best season in terms of run prevention came in 2023, before he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Officials argue the loss of FEMA funding could stymie long-term slide prevention efforts that were in the works for years before land movement drastically accelerated last year.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Experts attribute the decrease to a combination of factors, including the wider availability of the opioid antidote naloxone, along with $50 billion in funding for drug-treatment and youth prevention efforts from the national opioid settlements.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prevention
Noun
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This smacks of the classic PR strategy of avoidance, which always works in a market like Chicago for a team like the Bears.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The robot's dual 96-line lidar sensors and wide-angle cameras feed data into its onboard processors, enabling real-time mapping, omnidirectional obstacle avoidance and autonomous navigation, even in low visibility or completely dark environments.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2025
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The broad prohibition also seems to work against Trump’s stated goal of bringing more jobs to America.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Some suffragists argued that immigrants opposed suffrage for women and prohibition, and therefore immigrant voting posed a threat to their agenda.—
Time,
Time,
19 May 2025
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“Prevention.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prevention. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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