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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Trans women also receive official recognition from the government and health organizations, which view them as a target group for HIV prevention and treatment.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 19 Apr. 2025
Cameron Kasky is a Parkland survivor and, as a result, a founding member of Never Again MSD, a gun-violence prevention group, as well as an organizer of the March 2018 March for Our Lives student protests calling for gun law reforms.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
The National Civilian Community Corps deployed adults between the ages of 18 and 26 to work for weeks at a time to serve in communities, working on disaster response, environmental conservation and wildfire prevention across the country.
—Aishvarya Kavi, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
According to the memo, the plan calls for slashing the CDC’s budget by more than 40% and eliminating both its global health center and programs focused on chronic disease prevention and domestic HIV/AIDS prevention.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 19 Apr. 2025
Cameron Kasky is a Parkland survivor and, as a result, a founding member of Never Again MSD, a gun-violence prevention group, as well as an organizer of the March 2018 March for Our Lives student protests calling for gun law reforms.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
The National Civilian Community Corps deployed adults between the ages of 18 and 26 to work for weeks at a time to serve in communities, working on disaster response, environmental conservation and wildfire prevention across the country.
—Aishvarya Kavi, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
According to the memo, the plan calls for slashing the CDC’s budget by more than 40% and eliminating both its global health center and programs focused on chronic disease prevention and domestic HIV/AIDS prevention.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Prevention.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prevention. Accessed 30 Apr. 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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