Crossword-Solution: PREVENTS 8 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Forestalls 4 answers
Keeps from happening 4 answers
Averts 4 answers
Nips in the bud 5 answers
Heads (off) 6 answers
Thwarts 14 answers
Blocks 23 answers
Checks 34 answers
Bars 36 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREVENTS (5)

This prevents people from adding IP addresses to the network which may be illegal and you being responsible for passing them on to the Internet.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet Ed Krol 1992
Continued political turmoil, both internally and in the region as a whole, prevents any swift readjustments of trade patterns and economic rules of the game.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
However, as BROWNRIGG discovered between 1987 and 1989 in Australia, if one wants access to the Internet but cannot afford it or has some physical boundary that prevents her or him from gaining access, it can be extremely frustrating.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
But though I recognize my extreme liability to error, and scarce ever trust to the first thoughts which occur to me, yet-the experience I have had of possible objections to my views prevents me from anticipating any profit from them.
A Discourse on Method René Descartes 1995
But the same motive which prevents my writing the dialogue of the piece in Anglo-Saxon or in Norman-French, and which prohibits my sending forth to the public this essay printed with the types of Caxton or Wynken de Worde, prevents my attempting to confine myself within the limits of the period in which my story is laid.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with PREVENTS (3)

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.
Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran
In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every …
Thomas L. Friedman
Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.
Seneca Letters from a Stoic
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1971–2019).