prevented

Example Sentences

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Prevented from doing his job of overseeing privacy and security protocols, he says he was ultimately forced into resigning.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Prevented from entering the stadium by local security hired by the Iranian authorities, they've still managed to make their voices heard via the megaphones and loud speakers they set up outside.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2022

Prevented by state law from a second consecutive term, Mr. Patterson was succeeded by Wallace in 1962.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2021

Later, in 1975, Henry Heimlich offered his now-famous proposal for compressing the abdomen to expel foreign bodies from the esophagus, in a paper originally titled “Food Choking and Drowning Deaths Prevented by External Compression.”

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2018

My Honour suffers, should I now decline; It is my Country's Cause; I've pawn'd my Word, Prevented Philip, to make sure of you.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas