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It was also claimed the commission had imposed restrictions to prevent disorder when no evidence for potential trouble was presented.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

To prevent overuse, it automatically shuts off after 20 minutes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

To prevent the health sector from becoming the black hole into which everything else disappears, we need to discuss structural changes in healthcare delivery and finance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Instead, after CASA, the court can usually prevent only a losing government from enforcing its unlawful rule against the specific parties that filed the lawsuit.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

“And you put him up to it, governess? To prevent me from marrying Hortense?”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

That involves adding "sulphur accelerators, antioxidants, and activators into the material" which "prevents the biodegradation of balloons" and also leaks "toxic chemicals into the environment".

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

“The MMR vaccine does not cause autism,” the group says on an online fact page, adding that the measles vaccine prevents thousands of deaths a year worldwide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

At extremely high densities, quantum effects can generate powerful pressure that prevents matter from being compressed without limit.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

In fact, Americans of all ages, backgrounds and incomes are striving for a better life, but say the rising cost of living prevents them from their aspirations, the researchers found.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

It causes no damage to the lock, yet it prevents the key from entering, so the door cannot be opened.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Particularly within progressive organizations and movements, there were a lot of internal sacred cows that prevented dialogue from happening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

"This translates to about one in 17 dementia cases potentially being prevented," Hayes said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

The design came under scrutiny after two fatal crashes in China involving Xiaomi EVs, in which power failures were suspected to have prevented doors from being opened.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

It can be argued, as it was with China, that there is no single action that could have prevented North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

But not even the living people who crowded his rooms could have prevented what came next.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

For Skowronska-Krawczyk, the work raises the possibility that understanding how Greenland shark eyes remain healthy for centuries could eventually point researchers toward new strategies for preventing age-related vision loss.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Small actions like these can make a big difference in preventing illness,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Part of the challenge of preventing illegal behaviour is that very different vehicles are often grouped together under the term "e-bike".

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Moderna got a shot in the arm Wednesday after reporting that its personalized melanoma vaccine succeeded, in a large late-stage trial, at preventing cancer from coming back in high-risk patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

But Margaret had been trained as a surgical nurse, which meant sterility was her specialty—it was key to preventing deadly infections in patients in the operating room.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot