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pre·vent·ed

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How to use prevented in a sentence?

  1. Home Secretary:

    Almost all of these attacks have been prevented, but as the IRA once boasted, the terrorists only have to be lucky once.

  2. Sean Zheng:

    For every 265 patients treated with aspirin for 5 years, one heart attack, stroke or death from cardiovascular disease would be prevented, on the other hand, for every 210 patients treated with aspirin over the same period, one would have a serious bleeding event.

  3. New York:

    It was actually our stick that probably prevented it from going in. We just needed another inch, there should have been a penalty on Sebastian Aho. They didn’t call a penalty and he was hauled down. If it wasn’t a goal we should have been on the power play; that didn’t happen. They score on a turnover, on us. We’ve got to manage that puck. We didn’t.

  4. Associated Press:

    The Court of Appeals, by reversing this decision and remanding this case back to district court, has prevented a serious threat to the public’s right to know how their tax dollars are being spent.

  5. Van Dyke:

    It's a tragedy that could have been prevented with one simple step, at any step during that 20-minute rampage -- if Laquan McDonald had dropped that knife -- Laquan McDonald would have been here today.


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