Expensive
Expensive adjective - Commanding a large price.
Preventing and expensive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Preventing" instead an adjective "Expensive".
Preventing
Expensive and preventing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expensive" instead an adjective "Preventing".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Doug had an episode involving the "classic" version, a bulldog who was preventing Doug and Skeeter from getting a (borrowed and presumably expensive) frisbee out of a yard.
Source: Angry Guard Dog
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