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prevention

[pri-ven-shuhn] / prɪˈvɛn ʃən /


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The D.A.’s estimate “simply does not match what we are seeing in our review process, which includes a significant, detailed fraud prevention and detection protocol,” said Andy Baum, an outside lawyer L.A.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

After connecting online last year, McCall, Leffler and a third grieving mother named Deborah Royal launched the Seen Movement, a suicide prevention organization advocating for change in systems’ response to people in crisis.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Yet new details revealed in court show that critical fire prevention equipment needed repair before the blaze and that vegetation under the tower where it ignited hadn’t been trimmed for years.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Eagle said: "We are cleaning up sites, but we are also stopping the cycle, driving faster prevention and disruption, better intelligence, and stronger coordination across the system."

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

I’d directed Tina, my chief of staff and an attorney who herself had spent many years in the city, to throw her energy into rallying support for violence prevention there.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

Ms Clarke said she would be writing a preventions of future deaths report, raising the following concerns:

From BBC Oct. 13, 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

However, year by year, as sheds and fences and other preventions are multiplied, railroad delays caused by snow become fewer and fewer.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Mary Mapes Dodge




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