unpreventable
Example Sentences
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The investigation into the 2022 crash concluded that the Marines were doing routine flight operations when they experienced a dual hard-clutch engagement, leading to a “catastrophic, unpreventable and unanticipated mechanical failure.”
From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024
The Grammy winner, 59, questioned whether he could have prevented the aneurysm by focusing harder on his physical strength, but learned the condition was hereditary and unpreventable.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2024
Before the results of the state’s inspection report and the county’s autopsy report were publicized, Centinela implied the death was unpreventable.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023
As a Nov. 9, 1881, story in The Washington Post put it: “Washington has a scapegoat upon whose back is placed the burden of all undefinable and unpreventable ills. It is called malaria.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022
Prevention.—To guard against and prevent disease, or to render an unpreventable attack less serious than it otherwise would be, is the highest practice of the healing art.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.