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avoidable

adjective as in preventable

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Was the ‘Great War’ a necessary fight against German militarism, or was it completely avoidable?

Thus was brought about an unnecessary, expensive, and entirely avoidable war.

Adding guns to that often alcohol-fueled mix exponentially increases the potential for avoidable tragedy.

The towering inferno, captured in cellphone images and video that quickly went viral, was entirely avoidable.

The way doctors are paid is one reason why avoidable procedures persist.

And in every case a conversion leaves a sore behind it which, I venture to think, is avoidable.

She had kept the growing instincts at bay, being determined that nothing avoidable should come between her and her purpose.

Never stake the traps down for a dry land set, but select for a drag an old limb or root; not one fresh cut if avoidable.

But other causes of death begin to act only after birth, and are to a greater or less extent avoidable.

To these haughty, arbitrary men, accidentally armed with authority, was attributed much that was avoidable.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to avoidable, such as: needless, unnecessary, avertible, escapable, and stoppable.

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

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