obviate
verb (used with object)
to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary.
obviates
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present tense formof obviate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
To prevent, however, the supposition that such motives could have occurred, that the practice of praying to Christ could have subsisted, we are in possession of a declaration from Jesus himself which obviates all doubt.
From The Essential Faith of the Universal Church Deduced from the Sacred Records by Harriet Martineau
