preventability

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preventability
unlikelihood
Noun
  • Further dimming the prospects of peace is the unlikelihood that any of the developments that could change Putin’s calculus will materialize.
    Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2022
  • The unlikelihood of this turn of events—a niece being the first to find her uncle’s corpse—dissipates into the dynamic of the call: Shula’s bored, patient matter-of-factness, her father’s jolly, scattershot drunkenness.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Preventability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preventability. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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