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preventable

adjective as in able to be averted

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Earlier the parents of another girl caught up in the attack said it was preventable and urged a public inquiry to "expose the failures" that allowed it to happen.

From BBC

The seemingly unstoppable drumbeat of preventable child gun deaths drives the Olivers.

"We already know that the attack was preventable. What is important to establish now is how and why."

From BBC

“If we stay silent, preventable diseases will return — as we saw with the largest measles outbreak in more than 30 years, which tragically killed two children.”

Cancer Research UK commented on the post, thanking Ramsay for raising awareness of this common but preventable cancer.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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