obviate
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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
Railway lines, trucks, plastic products, electronic communication—all have tended both to obviate the need for manual dexterity and to chip away at people’s pride in self-sufficiency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 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 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
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