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preventative

noun as in safeguard

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Example Sentences

If you know that you get less joyous in winter months, you have to start a preventative approach.

He also seizes the opportunity to do public outreach, educating locals on HIV and AIDS as well as preventative methods.

While medications have improved, the use of preventative drugs like Truvada remains hotly debated.

Crow explained that his site put preventative measures in place to preclude trolls from reigning.

The law outlines what such preventative care encompasses and includes contraception.

I believe, my dear friends, that I have given you a sufficient preventative against all these follies.

Pieces of consecrated bread carried home and preserved is a preventative against the bite of a mad dog.

The only real preventative is to arrange that the men do not remain deep in mud or cold water for prolonged periods.

From here we were to take tea in the boiler to certain regiments, tea with wine in it as preventative against cholera.

That the climate itself is a preventative of consumption is evidenced in the fact that phthisis does not originate here.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to preventative, such as: precaution, preventive, protection, and remedy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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