mitigate
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“We need policymakers and candidates to put forward measures that mitigate risks,” the company said Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
They don’t care about Canada taking steps to mitigate global warming.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
Other countries are far less likely to have the covered venues of Atlanta, Dallas Houston and Vancouver to mitigate it.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It remains unclear when all the meat will be removed, but the company is taking steps to mitigate the odor by wrapping most of the building in a temporary material and using misting systems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Management actions at and in the immediate vicinity of airports do little to mitigate the risk of off-airport strikes during departure and approach.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
"You're not such a fool as you look, Dave," said my friend quietly, but with the twinkle in his eyes that mitigates his words.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George
“Rising component costs are mitigated given Apple’s bargaining power against consumers and the supply chain.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 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
Taneja noted that the company’s existing zero-trust architecture, network segmentation and secondary controls would have mitigated the flaws that were found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Earlier this year, the EPA announced it would perform a limited soil sampling at 100 destroyed homes across the burn zone in order to verify that contractors had thoroughly mitigated toxic substances.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
The silence that followed was partly mitigated by the drone of the filtration pump.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
Giving the public indirect exposure to the benefits of AI through part- government ownership could be one means of mitigating the criticism and heading off a political backlash.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
The purpose of these laws, Jackson wrote, was to “vindicate property rights” by mitigating “concerns associated with violations of those rights by armed individuals on private land.”
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
The commission said the governor reported all of the payments “prior to public discovery” or contact from its enforcement division, which it considered a mitigating factor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Just “running out of fuel, sir” at the end of a sentence, preceded by the mitigating “ah.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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