Sentence examples for were preventable from inspiring English sources

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were preventable

adjective

Able to be or fit to be prevented

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At least two-thirds, the investigators found, were preventable.

"These deaths were preventable and treatable, not inevitable".

Do you agree with the author Jon Krakauer that those deaths were preventable?

"Further research," she explains, "revealed that 70% of those deaths were preventable".

The Commons health select committee heard that most of those deaths were preventable with good medical care and attention.

Campaigners and charities blamed high energy prices and poor housing insulation for triggering what they argued were preventable deaths.

Over the past two decades 500,000 Iranians have died in what experts say were preventable road accidents.

The Indian and African famines were not just "natural" disasters: they were preventable; they were crimes of the greatest magnitude.

Despite the scope of the issues, the S.E.C. suggested they were preventable.

"Multiple times he was back in the hospital for things that I thought were preventable".

Many cases of malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, were preventable, said Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK's head of health information.

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