obviate

Another 22% are low-income beneficiaries who receive special subsidies that will obviate any premium increase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

As Bessent should understand, the violation of one logical condition can obviate the logic of another—what a logician might call an “antecedent condition.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 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

They also obviate the emotional component of investing, which so often can lead ordinary investors astray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

Israeli officials insist they have developed a bunker-busting capability that obviates the need for the kind of help they sought from the Bush administration 13 years ago.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

It is wrong to imagine, however, that the establishment of such leguminous cover-plants obviates weeding.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

Yet obviated in an instant would be many aggravations the government now links to Live Nation’s “market power.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2023

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

From Washington Times ● May 11, 2022

“So that kind of obviated the choice of Jarvis,” said Poster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

The table at which they sat was at some distance from any other, so all risk of their conversation being overheard was obviated.

From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight

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

Many of its 94 minutes are occupied with well-mounted car chases, stunts and gunfights, obviating the need for character development, past the traditional foes-become-friends dynamic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

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