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- if you start taking this preventive medicine now, you may not get sick after all
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- if people took the simple preventive of frequently washing their hands, the spread of germs could be greatly reduced
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'Preventive' or 'Preventative'?
'Preventive' or 'Preventative'?
Why not both, just to be safe?
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The first known use of preventive was circa 1626
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