Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigSuggestions(4)
The word "preventively" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing measures that are taken in order to prevent something from happening. For example, "The company adopted preventative security measures in order to protect their data."
Dictionary
preventively
adverb
In a preventive way
Exact(42)
Since the 2007 abortion reform, more than half of the country's 31 other states have preventively amended their constitutions to define life as beginning at conception.
Rather than special diets, he supports preventively taking approved anti-inflammatory medications, such as aspirin and statins, and scrupulously scheduling the standard vaccinations in order to prevent infections.
You say that the tendency toward more powerful and more expensive drugs, especially those used preventively (for example, statins for cholesterol at lower thresholds), is one of the big factors driving up price.
Coalitions might be temporary; force might be used unilaterally and preventively, not just as a matter of convenience but as a point of doctrine.
And although divorced readers have found the book therapeutic, Campbell believes that it might be better taken preventively.
Along with some fifteen thousand other political prisoners, they were being held "preventively".
If you're going to eat your pet's food in your sleep, why not think preventively, and exchange your turtles for a hamster or a rabbit, something safe and vegetarian.
It is this lack of effective response options that saps the will of governments in either acting preventively or responding to these crimes.
For example, the Cheka — the grandfather of Russia's security service, the F.S.B — preventively arrested those of noble descent or with relatives abroad.
Prosecutors had preventively seized the funds last September and placed the bank's top two financial officers under investigation on the grounds that they transferred the money without properly disclosing the sender or motive.
It allows residents to apply for a historic designation preventively, to keep future buyers from embarking on renovations without first appearing before the board.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com