preventable
Example Sentences
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Every year we wait is another year of preventable pain and lost mobility for millions, and another year patients, employers and taxpayers spend paying to replace joints we might have saved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
ProPublica’s analysis “raises concern that young women are dying from a preventable cause at an increasing rate,” Schreiber, the professor of OB-GYN, said.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Cervical cancer remains a major cause of preventable deaths despite the availability of HPV vaccination and screening.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Aina said that American Black women die in childbirth at three times the rate for white women, and 87% of these deaths were preventable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
In addition to being paranoid, confused, and intermittently tech-nophobic, defectors tend to suffer from preventable diseases and conditions that are all but nonexistent in South Korea.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
