prevention
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"As a solution to cancer, cancer prevention is clearly much better than cancer treatment, so we hope we can spot dangerous chemicals before people are exposed, and therefore prevent extensive cancer risk."
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
It added there was a "lack of material to suggest that basic infection prevention precautions were being taken", and there was evidence "equipment was reused without decontamination".
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Disney’s data privacy policy notes that the numerical values created by the technology are deleted within 30 days unless they need to be kept for legal or fraud prevention purposes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
If these deaths follow a pattern, then prevention does too.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026
This brilliant medical achievement came about by an attack that was twofold — that stressed prevention as well as cure.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing prevention
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