Example Sentences

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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

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

By virtue of being a pill, mifepristone can make abortion invisible, often obviating the need for medical imaging or pelvic exams and thereby eliminating visual access to the procedure.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

In the process, they may have taken a step toward altogether obviating the need for booster shots to fight new strains as they evolve.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2022

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