Examples of prevention in a Sentence
Exercise and diet play a role in the prevention of heart disease.
good crowd control is crucial to the prevention of riots
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Bristol Myers has key products, such as blood-clot prevention drug Eliquis and lung-cancer therapy Opdivo, which will be coming off patent in the coming years.
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
These address family violence prevention and the health, education and welfare of women and children.
—Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Its authority to investigate stems from Senate Bill 553, which requires employers to maintain workplace violence prevention plans, and was amended to apply more generally to various industries, including law enforcement.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Dementia's various modifiable risk factors have been catalogued by the Lancet Commission, which looked at all the available data on dementia and prevention globally and then synthesizes that into one report.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
These address family violence prevention and the health, education and welfare of women and children.
—Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Its authority to investigate stems from Senate Bill 553, which requires employers to maintain workplace violence prevention plans, and was amended to apply more generally to various industries, including law enforcement.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Dementia's various modifiable risk factors have been catalogued by the Lancet Commission, which looked at all the available data on dementia and prevention globally and then synthesizes that into one report.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Prevention.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prevention. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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prevention
noun
pre·ven·tion
pri-ˈven-chən 
: the act or practice of preventing something
the prevention of fires
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