deterred
Example Sentences
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It helps ranchers identify the owner of a lost or stray animal and has long deterred theft.
“To see the warmth of the people here, and the fact that we’re unafraid to come out, shows we won’t be deterred by whatever antisemitism there is, and there’s a lot of it.”
From Los Angeles Times
While some job applicants expressed interest in working on Ani, other prospects were deterred, some of the people said.
“Subclade K appears sufficiently different immunologically that it would be much less deterred by either the current vaccine or immunity from past H3N2 infections.”
From Barron's
Ms Inman Grant said Australia is playing the long game, and while stories of kids getting round the ban will make headlines, regulators will not be deterred.
From BBC
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