obviate
verb (used with object)
to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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And he is equally correct in arguing that technology is obviating whatever need there may ever have been for high denomination notes in legal commerce.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2016