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Patients taking the Wegovy pill must wait a half-hour before eating while those on Foundayo don’t have to, but doctors say that hasn’t been a major deterrent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Tehran "wants to maintain Hezbollah as a long-term deterrent tool and does not want to use it immediately to open a new front," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Attorney Jay Clayton said in the announcement: “Today’s sentence sends a deterrent message: fraud will not be tolerated.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

London plans to spend over 63 billion  pounds to strengthen its  nuclear deterrent, fund submarines and a new warhead as well as purchase 12 F-35A fighter jets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Not only did all those police act as a deterrent, but they also provided the manpower to imprison criminals who might have otherwise gone uncaught.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Meanwhile the latest fish kill figures have led to fresh calls for stronger deterrents to stop water pollution.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“And the durability of this truce depends less on the warmth of the words exchanged by the two leaders than on the credibility of the deterrents they can wield against each other.”

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

This lifestyle has also fostered an arms race of chemical deterrents to prevent the sponges from being eaten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The action was taken after a months-long campaign of using nonlethal deterrents, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis