deterrent
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“It’s a deterrent to try and protect public access.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Supporters argue that it can act as a deterrent, with one parent saying "it screams 'red flag' if places are against having CCTV, if they have got nothing to hide".
From BBC • May 6, 2026
The challenges, however, were not a deterrent for his vision of expanding the liberty cities model.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
However, it also wants to send "a continuous signal that it possesses a fundamentally different deterrent posture from Iran's".
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
And because the death penalty is rarely given for crimes other than homicide, its deterrent effect cannot account for a speck of decline in other violent crimes.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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