prevention
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The family’s companies have settled many accusations of environmental violations by agreeing to pay fines and invest in better pollution prevention without admitting or denying culpability.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
"It's been encouraging to see the survival rates for breast cancer improve over recent decades, and we'd love to see the same gains in prevention."
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
The White House said Trump’s numbers are consistent with expected therapeutic outcomes and established cardiovascular prevention goals.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the agency had $500 million for forest management and fire prevention that was not directly tied to cap-and-invest or the bond — up from about $65 million two decades prior.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
It had launched programs for women’s literacy and for the prevention of AIDS, and reduced the rate of HIV transmission from mothers to babies to 4 percent—about half the current rate in the United States.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing prevention
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