How to Use prophylactic in a Sentence

prophylactic

1 of 2 adjective

• Of course, the tires are loud and prophylactic-thin, so the ride can be only so smooth.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• Records from the home said the cocktail was given for prophylactic use.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2020
• But there is sharp disagreement over the prophylactic scope of the measure.
  — Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2018
• This is true for vaccines and prophylactic drugs alike.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• All of the Alabama linemen take part in what is known as prophylactic bracing.
  — Sam Borden, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
• MixMe now comes in a larger, less prophylactic-like package.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
• Johnston thinks the investigators will have some idea whether the prophylactic is working in a year or two.
  — Keridwen Cornelius, Scientific American, 7 June 2018
• The mortifying incident calls to mind a 2012 gaffe when Zac Efron dropped a prophylactic on the orange carpet of The Lorax.
  — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Given that, up to half decide to have prophylactic mastectomies, and many have ovaries removed, too.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 17 Dec. 2019
• After the 1918 pandemic, the prophylactic use of masks among the general public largely fell out of favor in America and much of the West.
  — Ferris Jabr, Wired, 30 Mar. 2020
• Part of the problem here is that the HPV vaccine is a prophylactic vaccine to prevent a disease—cervical cancer—that those providers never see.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2017
• Since the start of the pandemic, both prophylactic and postexposure measures have been rife with fraud.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• When poor owners cannot afford to fix their homes, the government should help as a prophylactic to save money on health care and education later.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• They are prohibited from selling the drugs for prophylactic use for the coronavirus.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020
• The Texas legislature meets for only five months every two years—a prophylactic measure designed to prevent the passage of laws.
  — Kashmir Hill, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2019
• In that study, researchers are testing the drug as a prophylactic, giving it to residents and staff in high-risk settings as a preventative measure.
  — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• Approximately one in four deaths in this age group were likely prevented with prophylactic use of azithromycin, according to the study.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 26 Apr. 2018
• We export and import livestock, fed and fattened with prophylactic doses of antibiotics and other drugs, across great distances and at high speeds.
  — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
• At iCare Mobile Medicine, on the other hand, the criteria for this prophylactic treatment are less stringent than those at Duke and other similar centers.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
• Some people may also choose to proceed with breast tissue removal, with a surgery called a prophylactic mastectomy.
  — Amy Comander Md, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
• Workers then determined the vaccination status of those exposed and doled out prophylactic treatments or vaccines to those who would take them.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 30 July 2018
• With nearly all of the breast tissue removed, as is done in a prophylactic mastectomy, the risk is reduced by approximately 90 to 95 percent.
  — SELF, 22 Mar. 2018
• But the analogy fails in key ways, Dr. Winston said — notably in that the flu has a vaccine and a prophylactic anti-viral treatment often given during outbreak; no such medicines exist here.
  — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• People who were in close contact with someone diagnosed with the plague can take prophylactic antibiotics to prevent the infection, Dr. Bailey adds.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• Spontaneous bleeds are rare and prophylactic infusions several times a week have become as routine as brushing your teeth, Rice said.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 20 Aug. 2020
• Options range from frequent screenings to prophylactic surgery (a procedure intended to prevent disease), per the NCI.
  — Korin Miller, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2021
• By government order, each person arriving in Uganda by boat is now put on a prophylactic course of antibiotics.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
• When the flu hits a nursing home, patients are given prophylactic anti-viral medicine; no such prophylaxis exists for the new coronavirus.
  — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• The committee’s effort is a prophylactic one: Politics might have infected almost everything about the Olympics, but the games themselves are a sacred zone that must be protected.
  — Stanley Fish, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• Preventative Surgery for Breast Cancer A prophylactic mastectomy is when a surgeon removes one or both breasts to prevent breast cancer.
  — Mikayla Morell, Health, 15 Feb. 2023

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prophylactic

2 of 2 noun

• The only reliable prophylactic was to site the city nine miles from the sea.
  — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
• As background, there's been a used prophylactic on the street in front of our house for weeks that the street sweeper somehow keeps missing.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• Preventive, or prophylactic, removal of the breasts and ovaries reduces the risk a great deal.
  — Peter Bach, Town & Country, 11 Sep. 2013
• Their main function is to make the broilers fatten up more quickly or to act as a prophylactic against the cramped conditions in which they are raised.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• One small prophylactic could be to pass a bill soon to let mail votes be preprocessed a few days before Election Day, as many other states permit.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 May 2022
• They are currently authorized by the FDA to be used post-exposure but not as a prophylactic.
  — Susannah Cullinane, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
• Arguably the most important prophylactic is to spend more time clarifying what our moral values are and where our red lines are drawn.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• Some antidotes can be administered as prophylactics to troops about to go into battle, if there is a risk of nerve agents being employed.
  — Simon Cotton, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2018
• Many places in Asia, South America, and Africa require malaria prophylactics.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 23 June 2017
• Or in a sanitized version of blood sacrifice, small silver images of the patient were offered as a prophylactic against illness.
  — Tulasi Srinivas, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
• And the benefit-risk [ratio] is very clear versus pre-exposure prophylactics that healthy people will take, say health care workers, to prevent them from acquiring the virus.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 24 Apr. 2020
• According to one estimate, tens of millions of patients worldwide may have taken ivermectin as either a prophylactic, a treatment, or both over the course of the pandemic.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
• Getting and staying married is not a surefire prophylactic against poverty.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 23 July 2019
• When implemented as a mandatory smartphone prophylactic, Yondr becomes a means of control, not of choice, let alone of presence.
  — Marcel O’Gorman, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2018
• It could also be offered to people who have been exposed to the disease to prevent infection, or used as a daily prophylactic for those at high risk of infection, such as health care workers, first responders, and prison guards.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 11 Aug. 2020
• Looking to the future, knowing the origins this pandemic provides a mental prophylactic against the looming uncertainty of the unavoidable next one.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
• Education, prophylactics, and drugs like PrEP have cut down its transmission.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 5 May 2017
• It has also been widely promoted as a coronavirus prophylactic and treatment.
  — James Heathers, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2021
• The constant machinations and heartless power struggles are fun to watch, but also serve as a kind of moral prophylactic, a way of investing in the competitions onscreen without being in danger of investing in the characters.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
• The probiotics build up healthy bacteria in your gut and the Pepto-Bismol acts as a prophylactic that coats your digestive track like a protective sleeve and can help filter out organisms in contaminated water or food.
  — Mark Ellwood, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2017
• The new study's findings cannot necessarily be extrapolated to people with mild illness at home or those, like Trump, who are taking the antimalarials as a prophylactic.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2020
• Lockers seem to be the smartphone prophylactic of choice for French ministers who must attend meetings sans portable, but for school students, the ensuing nomophobia—the fear of being without your smartphone—might be enough to provoke a revolution.
  — Marcel O’Gorman, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2018
• However, the prophylactic has been slow to reach developing countries and has proved far less effective at blocking the virus in most groups, including young women, who make up a majority of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• Consuming crime as entertainment, then, can feel like a prophylactic against disaster.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
• Doctors caution there is no evidence dexamethasone can prevent coronavirus infection, and should not be used as a prophylactic.
  — NBC News, 16 June 2020
• Garlic has been regarded as an effective prophylactic against vampires.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2014
• There has also been decreasing reliance on condoms or prophylactics for protection against acquiring or spreading STDs, officials said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• Their default skeptical stance is a prophylactic against the wiles of wishful thinking, a dare to true believers to provide extraordinary evidence in support of extraordinary claims.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2018
• The answer, based on conversations with administration officials familiar with the selection process, comes down to tactics and prophylactics.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Nary an instance of emergency room visits or poison control queries or pediatricians receiving frantic calls from parents whose teens have prophylactics blocking their airways.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018

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