mitigate
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The regulation provides a process for manufacturers to appeal a ban and mitigate security concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Disney executive Thomas Mazloum said earlier this year Disneyland’s high percentage of California visitors — typically more than 50% of its audience — has helped mitigate a slowdown in international visitation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“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
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
Santander’s geographic diversification mitigates risk by reducing volatility, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 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
That may often be true, but if there were no savings then it must be starvation, pauperism, or crime; at least the saving mitigates the suffering.
From Some Objections To Socialism From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures by Bradlaugh, Charles
“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
The state subsidies mitigated the damage from the expiration of the federal assistance, says Charles Gaba, the indefatigable private analyst of Obamacare financials.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
"If you take risks in the space business, it needs to be understood and mitigated risk," Hubbard said.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
With that help, the chaos that had brought him to this cage would be reined in and the misunderstanding manifested here would be mitigated.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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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
The TD Cowen analysts also noted that the two reports this week said the items that won’t be served were toppings, rather than Taco Bell’s core menu items, thus mitigating the risk to sales.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
He said Ansreen had been a "central figure" in the plot and had "many opportunities to stop the escalation of events", adding that mitigating circumstances had been "adequately taken into consideration".
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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
I had thought of telling him about the rash too, as a mitigating circumstance, but decide that our relationship is not at a point where I want to be discussing my body.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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