as in to prevent
to keep from happening by taking action in advance
brushing regularly should obviate the need for frequent trips to the dentist
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Recent Examples of obviate
These companies are usually involved in making coding easy or obviating expensive workers.
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
But the papacy is shrouded in the kind of secrecy that obviates appraisals of accuracy.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
Tariffs on imports will lead to a higher demand for compliance professionals that can enforce those tariffs and make sure foreign countries aren’t obviating them.
—Sanjeev Menon, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
However, since most vegetables grow for only a season or two, proper fertilization when planting will obviate the need for fertilization of any kind later on.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
But the papacy is shrouded in the kind of secrecy that obviates appraisals of accuracy.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
Tariffs on imports will lead to a higher demand for compliance professionals that can enforce those tariffs and make sure foreign countries aren’t obviating them.
—Sanjeev Menon, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
However, since most vegetables grow for only a season or two, proper fertilization when planting will obviate the need for fertilization of any kind later on.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025
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Such defenses include profiling victims before an attack is mounted, and can even provide an escape path to a benign alternative to prevent the threat being flagged.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Rather than address the underlying medical issues that prevent conception, IVF acts as a Band-Aid solution, artificially fertilizing eggs outside the womb in a laboratory.—
John Oertle,
National Review,
6 Apr. 2025
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How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse The evidence is similarly clear on Trump’s argument that continued reliance on tariffs to fund the government would have averted the Great Depression.—
Jesse Eisinger,
ProPublica,
8 Apr. 2025
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The United States and Iran are preparing for talks on Tehran's nuclear program in Oman to avert a possible military confrontation that could have devastating consequences far beyond the Middle East.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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That would seem to preclude any group from pursuing a class-action case.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2025
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This is a Pyrrhic victory, one that seems to preclude the possibility that a woman could create and think in concert with her body.—
Jordan Kisner,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Obviate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obviate. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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