prevent
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The force said it would use the powers under the Crime and Policing Act 2025 to "allow peaceful protest and prevent violence".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Those cells accumulated in the liver and lungs and produced the type of toxicity the new strategy is intended to prevent.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
An investigation of this kind does not prevent someone from running for office in Brazil.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Yields on longer-term Treasurys soon started falling, though—with investors hopeful that a more hawkish Fed would move to prevent inflation getting out of control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
With this information, the government keeps track of the disease, hoping to prevent its spread.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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That could mean that one problematic ballot in a mailing of 10,000 prevents the other 9,999 from being sent until the discrepancy is resolved and the batch checked again.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
"But in principle, nothing prevents us from writing down physical equations for a larger number of dimensions -- five dimensions, forty-two dimensions, or even infinitely many."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The fine print in the bill states that the company must have a plan that prevents top executives from receiving “short-term” bonuses after a fire that results in 500 or more structures damaged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Supporters of the law, in place since 1994, say it stops sensitive genetic data being given to commercial companies, and prevents family disputes being caused by unexpected results.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The only thing that prevents me from going all the way down is the side of the mathlete trophy case hanging on the wall.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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Perhaps that was a self-negating prophecy, since warnings like his might have helped put the country on alert and prevented attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Italy's far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said that although their "backgrounds and perspectives differed, that never prevented me from acknowledging her significance and her role in our nation's public life".
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Health issues prevented Leigh from making the trip to Telluride, but he sent a warm video message to introduce the screening, saying the film “speaks for itself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
In preclinical experiments, suppressing SET prevented tumors from developing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
And when elected President of the Royal Society, in 1680, he expressed his regrets that he could not take up the post because his personal religious beliefs prevented him from swearing the necessary oaths.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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“They’re going to need to beef up how they talk about safety and preventing some of the issues that are described in some of these tweets,” Martin told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Though the days of urgent pleas to reduce power use in the hopes of preventing major outages appear to be largely over in California, local utilities still employ public safety power shutoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
That binding interferes with transcription of the gene, either by disrupting the activity of RNA polymerase, the enzyme that produces RNA, or by preventing transcription factors from attaching to DNA.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Prince William has been a longstanding campaigner over mental health and preventing suicide, with his Royal Foundation having last year launched the National Suicide Prevention Network.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
He had planned to lay out his step-by-step strategy for preventing an arms race, backing each step with clearly reasoned arguments.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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