prevent
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Definition
to stop something from happening or to stop someone from doing something
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Coffee brings happiness and may prevent stroke - 7 key points for healthy coffee consumption.
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That headline, again from The Standard. Coffee brings happiness and may prevent stroke - 7 key points for healthy coffee consumption.
What are the benefits of drinking coffee and caffeinated drinks?: BBC Learning English from the News
This headline draws attention to how drinking coffee can prevent stroke, a medical emergency where blood stops flowing to a part of your brain.
What are the benefits of drinking coffee and caffeinated drinks?: BBC Learning English from the News
This is why the ethical framework that governs any AI application is incredibly important, and why many are calling for safeguards to prevent bias and hate speech to be built into AI systems.
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Now, that was written to prevent them being paraded through the streets, humiliated, abused, perhaps even subjected to violence.
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They're just something fun to do to, you know... prevent us from going insane. [chuckles nervously] [Zooble]: [sighs] Speak for yourself.
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"To prevent, therefore, this poultry misfortune to himself, would a man of humanity be willing to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of millions of his brethren, provided he had never seen them?" Human nature startles with horror at the thought, and the world, in its greatest depravity and corruption, never produced such a villain as could be capable of entertaining it. But what makes this difference? That's the end of the quote from Smith.
Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah
prevent something bad from happening at the cost of something less bad, you ought to do it." There seems at first no doubt that this principle—which seems to motivate some of Peter Singer's argument, I'll call the Singer Principle—has the consequence that you should save the drowning child. The child's drowning is bad, getting your suit dirty is much less bad. All this I grant, but does our moral response to
Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah
the drowning child really entail giving away all our worldly wealth? The Singer Principle requires you to prevent bad things from happening if the cost is something less awful. Upon reflection, however, it's not so clear that that principle even gets the drowning case right. Saving the child may be preventing something bad, but not saving the child, for all we know, might prevent something worse. After all, shouldn't I
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And so people with heart problems are told to avoid cholesterol because it can prevent the blood going to your heart.
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Doctors may prescribe blood thinners to prevent clotting in the heart and beta blockers to slow the heart's contractions.
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The population that appears most at risk is postmenopausal women, perhaps because estrogen helps prevent cardiovascular disease, and menopause decreases estrogen production.
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Prevent or treat diseases with vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
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And the goal of course then is to gradually and progressively increase the level of anxiety but then to intervene in so-called ritual prevention to prevent the person from engaging in the compulsion.
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I'm just saying, I mean as a coming on to change things maybe, but if you're worried about transitions and I think you have to be at the way that we've seen the games that we've played, then Kobbie Mainoo's like I said strengths aren't around transitions and defending against prevent some of the transitions by being better by moving the ball around though and having someone like him that can hold it and take it a little bit further?
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Like actually the kind of execution of having to go 70, 80 m, you want to stop, prevent that.
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But a lot of native English speakers who don't know anything about teaching or learning English somehow assume that everyone all my students are so basic where it's like okay this is blue let's do the alphabet A B C this is blue this is red this is green you know just like the most basic stuff I'll have one coffee please you know that kind of thing that's what people assume um um but anyway anyway anyway way I it is understandable why um a lot of content is more obviously for learners of English and is a bit more simplistic and it's very difficult to prevent that kind of thing from becoming patronizing and I know this again from experience from teaching lower level groups of students of English in classrooms if you've got an elementary group it's a one of the challenges of that is to continue talking to class and relating to them as sophisticated, intelligent adults because when you're trying to explain the absolute basics of the English language and practicing very basic things, there can be a tendency to start talking to them in a childish way.
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The uncomfortable implication is that the life most people are optimizing for maximum comfort, minimum effort, frictionless ease, is almost perfectly designed to prevent the state that actually produces genuine satisfaction.
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And I can still remember all the words, though copyright regulations prevent me from inflicting that upon you.
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Both inherited this nature from their [music] mother, which explains why their parents raised them under a strict vegetarian diet to prevent them [music] from yielding to their appetites.
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