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prevention

[pri-ven-shuhn] / prɪˈvɛn ʃən /


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In theory, savings should be multiples of the amount spent on prevention.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

As a result, some people may not be identified as high risk until the best opportunity for prevention has already begun to narrow.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

He added: “A food-safety system that can only identify a contaminated product after thousands of people report the same illness is not a prevention system. It is a documentation system.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

But decades of research and community-based prevention efforts tell us otherwise.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Of course fire prevention was the last thing the Herdmans knew anything about—except to be against it, I guess—so you had to hope the reporter wouldn’t pick one of them to interview.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

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

"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

As a budding health reporter, I tried to learn everything I could about Alzheimer's and wrote about new research on preventions and treatments that everyone wanted to believe had potential.

From Salon Feb. 13, 2022

And against the latter ills Mrs. Crane had provided both remedies and preventions to such an extent that some were discarded as excess weight.

From The Come Back by Wells, Carolyn




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