Attract
Attract verb - Exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away.
Prevent
Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The winners implemented a religion designed to prevent technology that would attract the Scary Dogmatic Aliens that destroyed the rest of humanity.
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Yet this hasn't affected Allen's ability to make movies at the same rate as before, nor halt his ability to attract name actors to work on his movies, nor prevent many of them from being commercial successes.
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