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Asked whether Meta wanted to prevent some data from being made public, he responded: "Who's Meta? Me?"

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

The fact that your mother gave you the property doesn’t, in itself, prevent you from transferring it back to her and receiving a step-up in basis when she dies.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

"It was fortunate that you regained your senses, Allun the baker, in time to prevent me from sinking in the mud and taking poor Rowan with me," remarked Marlie lightly, after a time.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

"People in my area talk about how physical pain prevents them from working, exercising and pain can generally just drag you down, " he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

The explanation is that occasional individual almond trees have a mutation in a single gene that prevents them from synthesizing the bitter-tasting amygdalin.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

District Judge Indira Talwani issued an injunction that prevented the federal government from implementing that EO.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Crandell and Mullineaux’s warnings of floods enabled the residents along the Toutle River to be prepared to move to higher ground and prevented many lives from being lost in the flood.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

The lawsuit seeks damages for streamers whose content was allegedly used to train AI, as well as an order preventing Amazon from continuing the alleged practice.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

But the technology’s greater promise may lie in preventing cancer recurrences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Sirius had taken no chances in preventing his parents from redecorating his room.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling