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Recent Examples of preventable
Other vaccine-preventable diseases were on the rise in Arizona and elsewhere, too, among them whooping cough, also known as pertussis.
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Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Research consistently shows that exemptions result in a higher rate of vaccine-preventable diseases.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
Tobacco remains the leading preventable cause of cancer deaths globally, accounting for one in five.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Additionally, experts said that 9% have skipped the polio or measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccinations, which can lead to large outbreaks of life-threatening and preventable disease.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Over the past year, I increasingly have been asked to train our young doctors on how to recognize vaccine-preventable diseases that haven’t been seen in the United States in most of their lifetimes.
—Pia Pannaraj, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
Lumata Health, which aims to end preventable blindness for people facing chronic eye disease, named Nastran Andersen chief growth officer.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Offering smoking cessation, nutrition counseling, stress management workshops and fitness incentives can reduce claims related to preventable conditions.
—Jessica Stroud, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Vaccine confidence in the United States has fallen since the COVID pandemic — primarily thanks to misinformation — and this is having a real effect on communal immunity for preventable diseases like measles.
—Mackenzie France, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Research consistently shows that exemptions result in a higher rate of vaccine-preventable diseases.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
Tobacco remains the leading preventable cause of cancer deaths globally, accounting for one in five.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Additionally, experts said that 9% have skipped the polio or measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccinations, which can lead to large outbreaks of life-threatening and preventable disease.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Over the past year, I increasingly have been asked to train our young doctors on how to recognize vaccine-preventable diseases that haven’t been seen in the United States in most of their lifetimes.
—Pia Pannaraj, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
Lumata Health, which aims to end preventable blindness for people facing chronic eye disease, named Nastran Andersen chief growth officer.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Offering smoking cessation, nutrition counseling, stress management workshops and fitness incentives can reduce claims related to preventable conditions.
—Jessica Stroud, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Vaccine confidence in the United States has fallen since the COVID pandemic — primarily thanks to misinformation — and this is having a real effect on communal immunity for preventable diseases like measles.
—Mackenzie France, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preventable
Adjective
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Michael's death was an avoidable tragedy.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Sep. 2025
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Many merchants still repeat the same edits across several dashboards, draining time and creating avoidable errors.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The potential consequences here can’t be overstated—the idea that robots can be taken over and used for nefarious purposes is already a science fiction trope, but the impact of a high-profile robot hack on the reputation of the commercial robotics industry is unclear.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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With votes looming, Johnson quiet on succession Johnson's position on the matter is yet unclear.—
Laura Gersony,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Preventable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preventable. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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