Prevent
Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.
Take advantage is an antonym for prevent.
Take advantage
Take advantage verb - Draw advantages from.
Both terms in one sentence
- Instead of trying to prevent it, the girls take advantage of his nighttime strolls and have him steal toys for them while pretending to investigate the thefts.
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They either take advantage of a tragedy to stop/prevent it or use the same methods as an even more evil third party to counter them.
Source: Visual Novel / Zero Escape - Eventually, the Flood on Delta Halo are able to take advantage of this to escape and infect Slipspace-capable ships, with one making it all the way to Earth; it takes an allied Elite fleet glassing a chunk of Africa to prevent the planet from falling to the Flood.
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