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preventable
adjective as in able to be averted
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Example Sentences
The eugenicist urge is not far from the surface, right down to the tendency to see people who die of preventable illness as weak links who needed to be "culled" anyway.
A cluster of cancers caused by HPV are now preventable, but the vaccine is under constant siege from politicians.
“And every single one of these deaths is an unnecessary, preventable death.”
Medicaid and social services will also need to absorb the rising financial strain of treating preventable postpartum conditions which can overwhelm both state and federal budgets.
“His death is an immeasurable loss, one which the community and Chanel still feel acutely. Worse, his death was entirely preventable.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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