obviate

There are assisted-living facilities and subsidized homecare to obviate that obligation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

“I’m here to obviate sensor fusion,” Ouster CEO Angus Pacala tells Barron’s.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Strategy already set aside a $1.4 billion reserve for dividend and interest payments over the next two years to obviate the need to sell bitcoins in the near future.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

Still, as Ritholtz and Invictus point out, it’s hornbook economics that the proper way to deal with non-seasonally adjusted figures is to use year-to-year comparisons, which obviate seasonal trends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024

To obviate this, I cleaned but two steps at a time, a distance over which a ten-year-old child could step.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

So this basically obviates the need for everybody to own their own vehicle.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023

The telephone obviates the use of a bullhorn, with a soldier standing south of the border, reading out a message to the North Korean side.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

The XPS 17’s spacious 16:10 17-inch screen nearly obviates the need to use an external monitor.

From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2022

But the fact that our focus is repeatedly splintered obviates much chance for emotional concentration and, consequently, the possibilities for being truly moved.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2020

This obviates the necessity for resetting, which can hardly be done without some error.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

That history, the majority found, obviated the need for the preclearance system.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2023

Pressman acknowledged that the strong leadership team that was already in place when Ritchie left obviated the need for an interim artistic director.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

The events could have obviated negotiations with the visiting EU coordinator.

From Washington Times ● May 11, 2022

Technology has not obviated the need for sustained artillery capabilities and armor.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

It must be obviated, or I cannot expect you to go along with me.

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

The longer the scene, the more likely it was mostly concocted inside a computer, obviating multiple takes, camera angles and union personnel waiting around to engage in spurts of frenzied action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Sickness can hurt farm output by slowing animals' growth, so disease detection systems could improve efficiency by obviating the need for costly clinical testing.

From Salon ● May 15, 2024

The information contained in a paper return could be squirted over a modem as a series of 0’s and 1’s, obviating the need to kill trees and race to the post office.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024

For example, NuScale engineers rely on convection to drive cooling water through the core of each SMR, obviating the need for expensive pumps.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2023

A gibbous moon rose above the shoulder of 27,824-foot Makalu, washing the slope beneath my boots in ghostly light, obviating the need for a headlamp.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer