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avoidable

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The death of a patient at the Causeway Hospital was "preventable and avoidable", a coroner has ruled.

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In the space of four months, Trump's aides now fear, the former president had dragged himself from probable victory to an avoidable disaster.

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“This was an avoidable tragedy. All the regional government needed to do was to give us the flood warnings in advance.”

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But he said in his view, the crash "was avoidable".

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A BBC investigation has heard allegations of avoidable animal deaths, welfare issues and a bullying culture at a zoo where a keeper was mauled to death in 2013.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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