mitigate
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Air quality regulators said that during the sanitation process this week, Lineage will need to maintain negative air pressure and keep air pollution equipment running to help mitigate fumes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Early this year, the agency introduced new methods to try to mitigate those issues, tweaking its model that helps the agency account for brand-new businesses and businesses that have just closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
To mitigate the risk, it’s best to have money set aside in a liquid account that you can use without having to tap into your retirement investments.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Urgent adaptations are needed to mitigate the effects of successive heatwaves on plants and the insects that rely on them to thrive," the society said.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Because for a private citizen to become a prince presupposes virtue or Fortune, it appears that either the one or the other of these two things should partially mitigate many of the problems.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Moore said the facility has remained at 45 degrees, which mitigates the risk of it becoming a biohazard due to food spoilage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Santander’s geographic diversification mitigates risk by reducing volatility, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
CoreWeave mitigates customer-turned-competitor risk with multiyear contracts and financing backed by customer revenue streams.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
But he added that the products Arm designs for that part of the market come with “dramatically smaller royalties,” which mitigates the potential impact on Arm’s business.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
And my jaw hers betokening a will, Hers too, with chin that mitigates the will, Shading to softness as hers did.
From Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters
“Rising component costs are mitigated given Apple’s bargaining power against consumers and the supply chain.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The attention economy is often portrayed helpfully by media outlets as an individual problem to be mitigated by reducing our own dependence on screens and devices.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
“They can only be mitigated by all of us working together.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
Taneja noted that the company’s existing zero-trust architecture, network segmentation and secondary controls would have mitigated the flaws that were found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The first officers, on the other hand, were talking to their boss, and so they overwhelmingly chose the most mitigated alternative.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Jet fuel prices will remain elevated over the July-December period, it forecast, vowing to pursue mitigating actions such as hedging for crude oil price changes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Abatzoglou hypothesized the region’s link between wildfires and soil moisture could cause the mitigating effects of the preceding El Niño to linger longer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Fifa disciplinary committee takes into account "both aggravating and mitigating circumstances", and it has the power to enforce the ban globally.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The TD Cowen analysts also noted that the two reports this week said the items that won’t be served were toppings, rather than Taco Bell’s core menu items, thus mitigating the risk to sales.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Just “running out of fuel, sir” at the end of a sentence, preceded by the mitigating “ah.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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