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preventable

[ UK /pɹɪvˈɛntəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /pɹiˈvɛntəbəɫ, pɹɪˈvɛntəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being prevented
    conscious of preventable human suffering

How To Use preventable In A Sentence

  • It was a singular, unpreventable event that has unfairly tarred all businesses.
  • Although many people see frailty as an inevitable consequence of ageing Jerry told Ric that many injuries suffered by the elderly are preventable.
  • The international community's historic commitment to slash worldwide poverty in half by 2015 -- known collectively as the Millennium Development Goals -- has resulted in real advances: Primary school enrollment is up, new cases of preventable diseases are down, and millions of people have climbed out of extreme poverty. Martti Ahtisaari: World Leaders Must Address Global Youth Employment Crisis
  • unpreventable hysteria
  • However, the authors believe that many of these premature deaths are preventable.
  • Dental caries or tooth decay remains the single most common disease of childhood that is neither self-limiting nor amenable to short term medical treatment and yet is preventable.
  • We know this virus is 100 percent preventable, so why is the number of new cases on the rise?
  • We must tell individuals, families, communities, nations, continents and the global community that there is preventable death, there is postponable death, there is reversible death, and there is inevitable death. Katherine Marshall: World AIDS Day: A Conversation From Uganda With Gideon Byamugisha
  • Polly Morgan, 29, is a trained taxidermist and has made her name fashioning art out of dead animals that have met accidental or unpreventable death.
  • Easily preventable Internet crimes are on the rise.
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