prophylactic

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Many people don't realize that there are policy solutions available that can serve as situational prophylactics to abuse and neglect in homeschool environments.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2023

Clichés are prophylactics against the complexity and intensity of direct experience, tools used to distance ourselves from reality, but this photograph brings love near enough that we can feel its hot breath.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2017

She envisions using such drugs as prophylactics in surgeries with a high infection risk, or in combination with other antimicrobials if a serious infection is already established.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016

The writers of the medical pamphlet literature devoted to disseminating information on the perceived nature, causes, prophylactics and cure of the plague described the symptoms of the disease in lurid detail.

From Time • Sep. 14, 2016

Those who would use prophylactics would be no worse morally than they were before, but society would gain hygienically.

From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus