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mitigate

[mit-i-gayt] / ˈmɪt ɪˌgeɪt /


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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

Several firms have recently introduced ETFs that seek to mitigate these quirks by hopping through a regulatory loophole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

For high-balance accounts, steady withdrawals starting early can also mitigate some of the tax impact of large RMDs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

But Basanta Raj Adhikari, director of the Centre for Disaster Studies at Tribuvan University, thinks it will not be possible to mitigate such threats completely.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 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

And economists have shown that continued immigration mitigates inflation and extends the solvency of Social Security and Medicare funds.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The advantage of this location "is that you can use the original tunnel's roof as your little tunnel's roof. Also, it mitigates risk of flooding," said Dix.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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

CoreWeave mitigates customer-turned-competitor risk with multiyear contracts and financing backed by customer revenue streams.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 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

"If external scientists have never studied a species, then potential risks cannot be accurately understood, let alone mitigated," the letter read.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

There are reasons why so many people are struggling right now—reasons that cannot fully be avoided or mitigated.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Bloating is often temporary and other gastric side effects may be mitigated by starting the supplement at a low dose and increasing daily consumption incrementally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

"You don't want to stifle innovation," Thune said on Monday, "but I think you also want to make sure that the more advanced threats can be mitigated."

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

They don’t see any hierarchical gap between themselves and the pilots in the air, and to them, mitigated speech from a pilot doesn’t mean the speaker is being appropriately deferential to a superior.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

There have been several mitigating factors, and Alexander-Arnold is not the only player to have struggled to find his best form during a turbulent period for Real.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

"Achieving our mission means the world gains the enormous benefits of frontier AI while mitigating the most significant risks," the company said.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

He said the traditional approach to mitigating insider risk relies on verifying someone’s identity and then trusting that what they do afterward is legitimate, which can miss cases where the threat develops over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

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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