mitigate
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The minister said the ongoing work by the trust had helped mitigate the waiting times at the ED but that these were still "much too long".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
City crews are pumping out water on the streets, rebuilding beach berms and opening tide valves to help mitigate water intrusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
You can also mitigate duration risk by using a ladder strategy, buying bonds with staggered maturity dates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The European Union insists that, yes, its law known as the AI Act is powerful enough since it forces companies to assess and mitigate risks, under threat of massive fines or even bans.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 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
CoreWeave mitigates customer-turned-competitor risk with multiyear contracts and financing backed by customer revenue streams.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 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
Upon the greater or less strength of the navy depends, in a maritime conflict, the aggressive efficiency which shortens war, and so mitigates its evils.
From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Bonus points for an address higher on a hill, where flood risk is mitigated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
However, it is possible some of this could be mitigated using new technologies.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Bears don’t like conflict. They like it easy. So the livestock issue, while fear is a real response if you are a livestock producer, can be mitigated … that’s not a deal breaker.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
What was their great battle over mitigated speech and teamwork all about, after all?
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
It depends on where you live, however, as there are many mitigating factors when it comes to filing for Chapter 7.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Jet fuel prices will remain elevated over the July-December period, it forecast, vowing to pursue mitigating actions such as hedging for crude oil price changes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 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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