as in preventative
concerned with or serving to keep something from happening
prior to the game, we moved the furniture out of the way as a precautionary measure
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preventive
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Those preventive measures include trimming overgrown yards and clearing out food that rats can easily access, Campbell said, gesturing at several green apples that had fallen from a nearby tree and were starting to rot.—
William Tong,
Chicago Tribune,
12 July 2025 -
The 2012 law required insurers to provide at no cost the preventive services that were approved as highly effective.—
David G. Savage
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Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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“Precautionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precautionary. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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