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obviate

[ob-vee-ayt] / ˈɒb viˌeɪt /


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The idea seems to be that the state down payment loan would obviate the higher interest rates buyers would otherwise have to pay under federal programs if they put only 3% down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“I’m here to obviate sensor fusion,” Ouster CEO Angus Pacala tells Barron’s.

From Barron's ● May 4, 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

They also obviate the emotional component of investing, which so often can lead ordinary investors astray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

To obviate this, I cleaned but two steps at a time, a distance over which a ten-year-old child could step.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

When there’s so much pressure on how it ends, it obviates the pleasure we take in getting there—and with The Undoing, there wasn’t that much pleasure in the journey to begin with.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2020

Further, contraction of the area of activity obviates high-intensity territorial defense, as adjacent males, even in regions of high population density, are isolated from one another by an area no longer regularly traversed.

From Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon by Jon C. Barlow

Yet obviated in an instant would be many aggravations the government now links to Live Nation’s “market power.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“There’s not much question that Congress could have obviated all this and solved the issue for any of this litigation,” Willinger said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

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

We had," he said, with a quietness which had, nevertheless, a suggestion of irony in it, "the honour of pointing out to you some of our difficulties and suggesting how they could be obviated.

From Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss

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

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 ● Nov. 10, 2023

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


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