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This will obviate the need to travel to entertainment venues and make access economical and on-demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

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

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 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

Anything that obviates the use of streetlamps seems like it’d be just as troublesome, if not more so, for the natural world.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2019

The illustrations show the construction of our improved Cap Bar, which entirely obviates these difficulties.

From Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Company, Howard & Bullough American Machine

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

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2023

The events could have obviated negotiations with the visiting EU coordinator.

From Washington Times ● May 11, 2022

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

The need of this had been obviated by an invention which he had first heard of in London during his visit there in 1816.

From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

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

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

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

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 ● Aug. 22, 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