1
as in preventive
something providing certainty that a specified outcome will or will not occur
Having two people do this job serves as insurance against accidents.
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as in contract
a formal contract promising payment if injury, damage, or loss occurs
They purchased their home and car insurance through the same company.
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Recent Examples of insurance
The price to join starts at $185,000 per person and includes accommodations for seven nights, access to dive gear (plus a scuba license for non-divers), expert guides, business-class flights, and insurance.
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Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2025
Fully autonomous, driver-out operations like Plus is testing raise complex questions about safety, liability, and insurance.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
The pharmacies, in turn, sold them to patients with private or government insurance plans, such as Medicare for senior citizens.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
The grant included crop, timber and livestock losses caused by extreme weather in 2023 and 2024 and didn’t require crop insurance to qualify.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
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Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2025
Fully autonomous, driver-out operations like Plus is testing raise complex questions about safety, liability, and insurance.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
The pharmacies, in turn, sold them to patients with private or government insurance plans, such as Medicare for senior citizens.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
The grant included crop, timber and livestock losses caused by extreme weather in 2023 and 2024 and didn’t require crop insurance to qualify.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insurance
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Padlocks, sickles and other objects made of iron, a metal said to possess anti-demonic powers, were stashed in the grave as preventives.—
Franz Lidz,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2023
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But although human vaccines function primarily as preventives, offering immunity to animals such as black-footed ferrets can be a conservation strategy of last resort.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2023
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Zhou pointed out that besides expanding the range of hedging products for international institutions, those contracts increase the influence of the yuan in the global commodity pricing system.—
Lee Ying Shan,Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
25 June 2025
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After inking new coach Jim Montgomery to a five-year contract when he was hired last November, the Blues rode a strong second half into their first playoff spot in three years.—
Carol Schram,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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This essential mental refreshment is a powerful preventative against burnout and directly injects new vitality into your creative process.—
Kice Akkawi,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2025
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Now, experts say what’s needed to get the fight back on track—and eventually end the threat for good—isn’t just better diagnostics and therapeutics, but long acting preventatives.—
Jennifer Lotito,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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More than 400 security personnel will be staffing the facility, which has 28,000-plus square feet of barbed wire.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
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Advertisement The episode speaks to why Trump may not want to turn the military into a partisan player: doing so threatens the ability of a president to protect American national security.—
Time,
Time,
1 July 2025
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The Pentagon on Thursday released an extraordinary number of details about the military's top-secret bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities and its defense of an air base in Qatar.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
26 June 2025
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Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh also attended the Qingdao meeting, the first visit from an Indian defense chief to China since a deadly 2020 border clash between the two countries.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
26 June 2025
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Many worry that giving away such an important cultural site without full public input or guarantees for restoration and ongoing community use would be a mistake; city officials insist no final decisions have been made and promised more opportunities for public engagement.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
30 June 2025
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For example, there’s no guarantee that city-run grocery stores would be able to provide cheaper and more nutritious foods.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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That’s because Republicans are still hustling to win approval for provisions that their nonpartisan rules referee deemed ineligible for protection from a Democratic filibuster.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
26 June 2025
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As data protection standards in these industries become stricter in anticipation of quantum threats, solutions that incorporate quantum-resistant encryption are increasingly necessary.—
Robert Kramer,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Look for Alphabet to deploy the Buy and Link defensive strategies — vacuuming up promising AI advertising startups and offering discounting and packaging deals to extant search customers that want to experiment with the Google AI advertising platform.—
Forrester,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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In the past couple of years Sony has made enormous investments in Queen and Pink Floyd catalogs — $1.1 billion and $400 million respectively — while Primary Wave made a $100 million deal for 50% of Notorious B.I.G.’s holdings.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
1 July 2025
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“Insurance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insurance. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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