prevent
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In recent weeks, Bessent has taken steps that some analysts have seen as connected to his effort to at least prevent a further rise in Treasury yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
A-Baki was the face of a failed plan to prevent oil exploitation in an Amazon reserve in exchange for a hefty international contribution.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
He also used the speech to criticise the media, calling her the "most hunted person of the modern age" and pledged to protect Prince William and Prince Harry and prevent them suffering a similar fate.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
A balanced musculoskeletal system, in everyday life, helps prevent abnormal movement patterns that can lead to chronic injuries, even in nonathletes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
They only knew that they needed to get water into the reactor core to prevent the chain reaction from spiraling out of control.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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No 16-year-old should be so strictly confined to a routine that prevents them from actually living their life.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
The foreign emoluments clause prevents the president and other federal officers from accepting “Any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state.”
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
“The MMR vaccine does not cause autism,” the group says on an online fact page, adding that the measles vaccine prevents thousands of deaths a year worldwide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
At extremely high densities, quantum effects can generate powerful pressure that prevents matter from being compressed without limit.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Right now, I have code that prevents me from moving on my own.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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Until this year, Section 230 had in effect prevented actions like this one from ever reaching a jury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The report didn’t say whether the fixes could have prevented the accident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
This mismatch has prevented conventional stainless steel from being used effectively in some high voltage electrochemical applications.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Michigan, narrow criteria and confusion over eligibility have prevented exonerees from getting paid.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Of course, she could have prevented the watch from being broken if she had only believed me when I told her that I was going to break it.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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There’s also been confusion over future monetary policy at the Fed, preventing the stabilization of longer-duration Treasury debt, she added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
While we don’t know how the series of events played out at L3Harris, Palazzo argues that in general preventing ambiguity requires regularly talking about values and linking ethical choices to success at the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The results provide new insight into viruses that persist in the body and could eventually help guide strategies for preventing or treating their reactivation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Not only are we protecting our physical borders from unlawful crossings, but we are also preventing immigration fraud schemes that are just another way to skirt the immigration laws of the United States," Blanche said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
They fought much more fiercely than Trent Bolger and Cyprian Cusumano, and I was shifting the balance of their vendetta by preventing Ali-Reza from scoring.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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