obviate

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

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

But perhaps the face mask obviates all of that.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2020

This obviates the stiffness engendered by endless hours of driving in one position.

From Norway by Beatrix Jungman

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

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2023

“Couldn’t you have solved this problem or precluded this, obviated this problem by obtaining a general release in your settlement?” he asked.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

Mike Smith has obviated those concerns down the stretch, with the 40-year-old winning nine of his final 10 games and looking quite sharp.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022

Technology has not obviated the need for sustained artillery capabilities and armor.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

They had been abandoned by the Senecas in their sudden surprise, and thus the most serious difficulty in the removal of Barton and his family to the settlements, was obviated.

From The Frontiersmen by Gustave Aimard

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

The information contained in a paper return could be squirted over a modem as a series of 0’s and 1’s, obviating the need to kill trees and race to the post office.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024

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