Prevent
Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.
Work on
Work on verb - To exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something.
Both terms in one sentence
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The laser gun, while not being a rotary cannon (it has four barrels, but they don't spin), is also mentioned by NETRICSA to work on the same general principle to prevent overheating.
Source: Gatling Good -
This doesn't work on the scout's larger Auto-Assault cousins, though, which are compartmentalized and thus prevent boarding drones from being able to move around within them.
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It Will Never Catch On: Lo Wei, the first director who gave Jackie a chance, actively worked to prevent him from making comedic kung fu movies and forced him to work on endless Bruceploitation films.
Source: Creator / Jackie Chan
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Work on and Prevent. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/prevent/work_on
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