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prevention

[pri-ven-shuhn] / prɪˈvɛn ʃən /


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In a prevention of future deaths report James Bennett, a coroner for Herefordshire, said the inability for police forces to provide round-the-clock specialist search officers was being impeded by a lack of training provision.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Today, Americans are living and working longer, and yet prevention hasn’t caught up.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

They also raise the possibility that the gut could become a target for future strategies designed to support brain health and prevention earlier in life.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

In college she wasn’t sure whether to work on pandemic prevention or AI safety, but seven years ago she chose AI safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Riddick now heads a drug prevention program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

"There were these pressure alarm mats, but as soon as you stood on them, they would slip from underneath your feet – they were used as preventions, but were actually causing the falls."

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

U.S. taxpayers invested billions of dollars in the effort and were able, until recently, to access treatments and preventions for the virus without paying out-of-pocket for them.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

"Epidemic preventions have been lifted...COVID-19 testing sites are mostly being dismantled... So, because right now in Chaoyang district cases are quite high, it is better to stock up on some medicines," he said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2022

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg said at the time that the reason for it was a search syndication agreement with Microsoft, and that more updates on third-party tracker preventions were coming.

From The Verge ● Aug. 5, 2022

Yea as these punishments are preventions of like wickednesse in some, so are they wholesome medicines, to heale such as are curable of these eviles….

From The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams


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