preventing
Example Sentences
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The campaign was begun to push education around consent, respect and healthy relationships, with the aim of preventing abuse and violence.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Earlier this year, Kennedy defended his record, telling a congressional committee that “there’s a global measles epidemic. We’ve done better in preventing it than any country in the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
That, in turn, would result in lower costs for end users, the letter noted, while open weights also give customers more autonomy over their technology, preventing vendor lock-in.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
In hardware, however, China still lags far behind the U.S. even with Huawei’s recent progress, and chip-production capacity problems are preventing Chinese companies from deploying AI as quickly as they would like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
We dove again and again, preventing the bossling from focusing on the doorway.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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