obviate

Example Sentences

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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

So this basically obviates the need for everybody to own their own vehicle.

From Salon

Battered bond markets have recovered as a benign U.S. payrolls report and upbeat productivity numbers suggested the labour market was cooling enough to obviate the need for further rate increases from the Federal Reserve.

From Reuters

The technique would obviate the need to cut large slabs of metal into the product’s shape.

From Seattle Times

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