obviate

Example Sentences

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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

“Yes, the virus is worse, but that doesn’t obviate doing research to make sure that there may be other options.”

From New York Times • May 3, 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