mitigate
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Guardiola's solution to mitigate some of these issues last season came in the form of asking midfielders to shoulder more ball-playing responsibility.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The Japanese automaker has taken measures to mitigate the impact of disruptions caused by the Iran war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The work includes excavation to retrieve a soil sample and debris removal, as well as installing sandbags to mitigate further damage from strong waves and coastal erosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"HM Treasury has considered these concerns carefully and has taken immediate steps to mitigate the identified risks," according to the department's response.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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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And economists have shown that continued immigration mitigates inflation and extends the solvency of Social Security and Medicare funds.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
Santander’s geographic diversification mitigates risk by reducing volatility, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
By properly rotating his crops he mitigates this to a certain extent, in addition to which he restores to the land some of its old nitrogenous constituents by the addition of manure.
There are reasons why so many people are struggling right now—reasons that cannot fully be avoided or mitigated.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
The inspector general found that the Fed’s Board of Governors failed to take actions that would have mitigated significant cost overruns.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
OpenAI founder Sam Altman and others have said that many of today’s diseases could be mitigated if not cured in the next decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
However, it is possible some of this could be mitigated using new technologies.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Food aid from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and other donors mitigated the worst of the famine by the late 1990s.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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The PBOC’s report suggests that policymakers’ priority is stabilizing China’s capital markets and mitigating financial risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Boulder wants compensation for wildfires, the costs for mitigating pest infestations, reduced farm output and lower employee productivity, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The so-called Games Agreement laid out a “shared set of values” and called for an operating budget that would be “prudent, realistic, and designed to protect taxpayers by mitigating financial risk.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
"I want to be absolutely confident that we have all of the facts of the case and that we can take mitigating measures to ensure that there is no repetition of this."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
None of this compelling mitigating evidence was presented at trial, and it should have been.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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