- present participle of prevent.
preventing
Example Sentences
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The results provide new insight into viruses that persist in the body and could eventually help guide strategies for preventing or treating their reactivation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Hundreds of firefighters, two of whom were injured, supported by water-bombing aircraft spent hours fighting the flames, preventing them from spreading across the Halkidiki peninsula, south of the city of Thessaloniki.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
“What happened during construction of the People Mover is important, but not as important as preventing some of the missteps from happening again.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Your friend may — or may not — get lucky with preventing Medicaid’s estate-recovery program.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
What was he doing, he asked himself, sending Bri into the arms of strangers and preventing Julie from going off with family?
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
