Prevent
verb
To stop something from happening or someone from doing something.
Regular exercise can help prevent heart disease
Often appears as...
- prevent someone from
- prevent disease
verb
To make an event or action impossible.
The security system prevented the theft
Often appears as...
- prevent theft
- prevent damage
verb
To be a hindrance or obstacle to.
His disability prevented him from pursuing a career in sports
Often appears as...
- prevent someone from
- prevent an opportunity
verb
To stop something from happening or someone from doing something.
Regular exercise can help prevent heart disease
Often appears as...
- prevent someone from
- prevent disease
verb
To make an event or action impossible.
The security system prevented the theft
Often appears as...
- prevent theft
- prevent damage
verb
To be a hindrance or obstacle to.
His disability prevented him from pursuing a career in sports
Often appears as...
- prevent someone from
- prevent an opportunity
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Pro Tip 1/3Proactive Measures
Prevent often implies taking action before a potential problem arises.
Vaccinations can prevent certain illnesses.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Focus
Use 'prevent' when discussing measures to ensure safety and avoid harm.
Wearing a seatbelt prevents many injuries in car accidents.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Stop
'Prevent' is more than just stopping; it's about proactively avoiding future issues.
Studying regularly prevents last-minute exam stress.
Pro Tip 1/3Proactive Measures
Prevent often implies taking action before a potential problem arises.
Vaccinations can prevent certain illnesses.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Focus
Use 'prevent' when discussing measures to ensure safety and avoid harm.
Wearing a seatbelt prevents many injuries in car accidents.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Stop
'Prevent' is more than just stopping; it's about proactively avoiding future issues.
Studying regularly prevents last-minute exam stress.
Pro Tip 1/3Proactive Measures
Prevent often implies taking action before a potential problem arises.
Vaccinations can prevent certain illnesses.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Focus
Use 'prevent' when discussing measures to ensure safety and avoid harm.
Wearing a seatbelt prevents many injuries in car accidents.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Stop
'Prevent' is more than just stopping; it's about proactively avoiding future issues.
Studying regularly prevents last-minute exam stress.
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Writing down your worries can also help. This strategy may give you a chance to reevaluate a stressful experience, freeing up working memory. And if you have the chance, physical activity, like a brisk walk, deepens breathing and helps relieve muscle tension, preventing anxiety from building. You can also use your knowledge about the brain
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a phenomenon known as the forgetting curve. But this loss can be prevented through memory consolidation, the process by which information is moved from our fleeting short-term memory to our more durable long-term memory. This consolidation occurs with the help of a major part of the brain, known as the hippocampus.
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How does asthma work? -...
One way is to reduce the presence of triggers. Unfortunately, the world is an unpredictable place and exposure to triggers can't always be controlled. This is where inhalers, the primary treatment for asthma, come in. These medications help asthmatics both control and prevent their asthma symptoms.
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which will lower your heart attack risk as well. And of course, medications can also help prevent heart attacks. Doctors often prescribe low-dose aspirin, for example, particularly for patients who've already had a heart attack and for those known to be at high risk.
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How to raise a Black son...
while he prevents others from being so." I've been thinking a lot about this lately, this idea of humanity, and specifically, who in this world is afforded the privilege of being perceived as fully human. Over the course of the past several months,
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Would you sacrifice one...
that study participants don't take it seriously. But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one.
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The psychological weight...
your diabetes not cure you so your doctors will work very very hard to try to prevent complications that might ruin the quality of your life or kill you so i knew that this was not going to work for me
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technology left an enormous amount of visual evidence for studying years to come and can perhaps help us better understand the power of earthquakes and tsunamis and prevent loss of life in the
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Why is it so hard to...
Figuring out how to target these stubborn cells might help prevent cancers from coming back. Even if we solved those problems, we might face new ones. Cancer cells are masters of adaptation,
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Brutal Lion Infanticide...
It causes the bereft lionesses quickly to come into season. However, the lionesses need a strong coalition of males for their future protection So, they must prevent them fighting over sex.
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Why do people get so...
Writing down your worries can also help. This strategy may give you a chance to reevaluate a stressful experience, freeing up working memory. And if you have the chance, physical activity, like a brisk walk, deepens breathing and helps relieve muscle tension, preventing anxiety from building. You can also use your knowledge about the brain
Video examples
The benefits of a good...
a phenomenon known as the forgetting curve. But this loss can be prevented through memory consolidation, the process by which information is moved from our fleeting short-term memory to our more durable long-term memory. This consolidation occurs with the help of a major part of the brain, known as the hippocampus.
Video examples
How does asthma work? -...
One way is to reduce the presence of triggers. Unfortunately, the world is an unpredictable place and exposure to triggers can't always be controlled. This is where inhalers, the primary treatment for asthma, come in. These medications help asthmatics both control and prevent their asthma symptoms.
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What happens during a...
which will lower your heart attack risk as well. And of course, medications can also help prevent heart attacks. Doctors often prescribe low-dose aspirin, for example, particularly for patients who've already had a heart attack and for those known to be at high risk.
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How to raise a Black son...
while he prevents others from being so." I've been thinking a lot about this lately, this idea of humanity, and specifically, who in this world is afforded the privilege of being perceived as fully human. Over the course of the past several months,
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Would you sacrifice one...
that study participants don't take it seriously. But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one.
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The psychological weight...
your diabetes not cure you so your doctors will work very very hard to try to prevent complications that might ruin the quality of your life or kill you so i knew that this was not going to work for me
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Rare Video: Japan...
technology left an enormous amount of visual evidence for studying years to come and can perhaps help us better understand the power of earthquakes and tsunamis and prevent loss of life in the
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Why is it so hard to...
Figuring out how to target these stubborn cells might help prevent cancers from coming back. Even if we solved those problems, we might face new ones. Cancer cells are masters of adaptation,
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Brutal Lion Infanticide...
It causes the bereft lionesses quickly to come into season. However, the lionesses need a strong coalition of males for their future protection So, they must prevent them fighting over sex.
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Zach Galligan
American Actor
If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.
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Ernest Bevin
British Public Servant
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
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Jesus Christ
Leader
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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Lucy McBath
American Politician
It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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John Wooden
American Coach
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
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Zach Galligan
American Actor
If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.
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Ernest Bevin
British Public Servant
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
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Jesus Christ
Leader
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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Lucy McBath
American Politician
It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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John Wooden
American Coach
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
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