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

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 go through kemmer without a partner is pretty hard on a Gethenian; better, then, simply obviate the misery and wasted worktime, and not go through kemmer at all.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The illustrations show the construction of our improved Cap Bar, which entirely obviates these difficulties.

From Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Company, Howard & Bullough American Machine

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

This may be obviated by letting the cross slide be the lower one as in the English form of slide rest shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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

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

Decoding how the tactics of mendacity work in manipulating minds, in order to come up with counterstrategies for obviating or stemming their deleterious influence, is an urgent objective.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 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