prophylactic

Example Sentences

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Volunteers were divided into two groups: prophylactic arm and therapeutic arm.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

It also announced plans to buy Cidara Therapeutics, which is working on antiviral treatments, including a flu prophylactic in Phase 3, for $9.2 billion.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026

But more crucially, American military aid is prophylactic.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2025

Third, these policies can serve an important prophylactic function by enabling employers to identify and remedy barriers to equal opportunity that, if allowed to fester, may lead to civil rights law violations.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2025

We have improved upon nature;—and our artifice has been prophylactic by virtue of being in a certain sense developmental.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)