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277 examples of Prevents in a sentence

When a mosquito bites you, it releases a compound into your body called an anticoagulant that prevents your blood from clotting.
It's politics that prevents us doing that rather than a rational solution.
The two oppositely charged molecules stick together through charge attraction, and that provides us with a protective layer that prevents the siRNA from degrading in the bloodstream.
The hard-to-reach location also prevents the doctor from surgically removing it, as is routinely done for breast cancer, for example.
The prohibition of street prostitution also causes more harm than it prevents.
The LES contracts, squeezing the stomach entrance and creating a high pressure zone that prevents digestive acids from seeping out.
And having a low floor also means that we're removing the financial barrier that prevents people from completing a project.
Evidence prevents the elites from imposing their own view without proof.
When I first started working on this problem, I collaborated with a power company to recruit customers for a program that prevents blackouts by reducing energy demand during peaks.
But it prevents us from doing so much.
Because short-termism prevents the CEO from buying really expensive safety equipment.
Short-termism prevents teachers from spending quality one-on-one time with their students.
Don't take on the cost that prevents you from getting to the contributions of these people.
The trait that prevents me from recognizing my mom allows me to smoothly adapt, to quickly absorb and accurately process an exhausting volume of cues, tease out what's important, determine multiple processes or potentials for any situation that I'm in, and then select the one that makes the most sense, all in a matter of seconds.
Male dogs are very serious about a hierarchy, because it prevents physical fights.
So now that we've stripped the hall of all visual distraction, everything that prevents this intimacy which is supposed to connect the house, the audience, with the performers, we add one little detail, one piece of architectural excess, a special effect: lighting.
A forest of curved hairs prevents his escape, guiding him into a central chamber with flesh-digesting enzymes and deadly low levels of oxygen.
Two people in my lab: a postdoc, Iris Titos Vivancos and a PhD student, Michelle Frank, are asking exactly what is this barrier that's established in the brain that prevents sensor information from coming through during sleep?
That prevents the cell from completing its replication, leading to its death.
If too much current is flowing, the intelligent receptacle turns itself off, and prevents another fire from starting.
An intelligent receptacle prevents injuries because the power is always off, until an intelligent plug is detected.
Penicillin binds to one of the compounds that weaves this mesh together and prevents the wall from being reconstructed at a critical phase.
And what this basically consists of is a large muscle that takes a good long time to contract, and a latch that prevents anything from moving.
And the reason it keeps getting worse is that after a natural catastrophe, like a hurricane, it used to be that there was some kind of successional sequence of recovery, but what's going on now is that overfishing and pollution and climate change are all interacting in a way that prevents that.
So the body's ability to balance angiogenesis, when it's working properly, prevents blood vessels from feeding cancers.
Secret Service agent Eric Phillips prevents an attack on his boss, Senator Robert Dilly (the man who set up the USCJS), by the Union for Human Rights, a group of anti-machine activists.
The only remotely interesting character is Rose McGowen's, who is mute which prevents her from being ruined with cliche ridden garbage dialogue (well, at least until the end when even she has to speak).
Eric Phillips (Don Wilson) is a secret service agent who prevents the assassination of a senator however along the way he finds a conspiracy and has a tracker on his tail.
Apart from making the story overally dull, this also prevents the neutral viewer to identify himself with one or the other side - it's just too simplifying.
Yes, I know there is no incest and I know that nobody around them knows he really is her father, but I found that any kid passing her dad off as her sexual paramour is too yucky and prevents the movie from truly being funny.
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