mitigate
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"Urgent adaptations are needed to mitigate the effects of successive heatwaves on plants and the insects that rely on them to thrive," the society said.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The company has also been accruing fines as air regulators demand the company take additional steps to mitigate the smell and vermin that has been drawn to the site and surrounding neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Chelsea had done plenty of work to mitigate those demands.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
But Merck’s healthcare segment remained resilient after its rare-disease drugs helped it mitigate a hit from generic competition for its Mavenclad multiple-sclerosis medicine, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The best I could hope to do was mitigate the disaster.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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Moore said the facility has remained at 45 degrees, which mitigates the risk of it becoming a biohazard due to food spoilage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
While China relies on oil imports, "it mitigates this exposure through diversified suppliers, ties with Iran, substantial strategic reserves and continued reliance on coal", she said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
Higher aluminum prices outside of China are also incentivizing producers there to export more, which mitigates some of the global supply risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
But he added that the products Arm designs for that part of the market come with “dramatically smaller royalties,” which mitigates the potential impact on Arm’s business.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
There is a consideration that mitigates the complication, and renders the task of unravelling it not altogether hopeless.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
The Genius Act mitigated some credit and liquidity risk from stablecoins, and the Clarity Act provides a regulatory framework for crypto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
That could have mitigated the Dodgers’ huge advantage in slugging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
The attention economy is often portrayed helpfully by media outlets as an individual problem to be mitigated by reducing our own dependence on screens and devices.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Given the power of some AI models, there’s a question of whether governments regulate how this technology is rolled out, if it hurts job creation, and how that is mitigated.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Time mitigated his mad proposal, but it aggravated his feelings of frustration.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"The limited extension during this period makes a temporary contribution to mitigating the exposure of the electricity system and Spanish consumers to previously unforeseen price spikes," said the announcement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Instead of fighting the erosion, villagers have introduced their own mitigating measures to give their properties and livelihoods a better chance against the inevitable.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Abatzoglou hypothesized the region’s link between wildfires and soil moisture could cause the mitigating effects of the preceding El Niño to linger longer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Even its name, StormWall, sounds like science fiction, but authorities on space weather say it could work, mitigating an event that happens, they estimate, once a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“I don’t believe anything you tell me,” Nately replied, with a bashful mitigating smile.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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