mitigate
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He added the university was committed to trying to mitigate redundancies where possible and would be giving staff access to a voluntary severance scheme.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
"How can you have faith in these measures that they're putting in to mitigate future disasters if you don't know fully what happened the first time around?" she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The German group said the recovery in its pharma business allowed it to mitigate market pressures at its agricultural and consumer-health divisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
To mitigate her dishonesty, she deflected all honor from herself, filling her letters widi praise for Zoe.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
CoreWeave mitigates customer-turned-competitor risk with multiyear contracts and financing backed by customer revenue streams.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
Mr. Mitchell sees virtue in how diplomacy mitigates costs and constrains violence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Hence, it is admitted by many Arminians themselves, that their own scheme merely mitigates and softens down, without removing, the appalling difficulty in question.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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 legal team for ITN and The Guardian told the court that the celebrity's "suicide risk" could be mitigated and there was no proper basis "to restrain the publication of public interest journalism".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 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
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
The first officers, on the other hand, were talking to their boss, and so they overwhelmingly chose the most mitigated alternative.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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There were mitigating circumstances behind England's early departures from the Men's and Women's Rugby League World Cups.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 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
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 don’t believe anything you tell me,” Nately replied, with a bashful mitigating smile.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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