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obviate in the PONS Dictionary

obviate Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to obviate the necessity of sth
prévenir la nécessité de qc
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If realized, it could be moved anywhere throughout the world's oceans, obviating the need to seek permission from allied nations for use of land bases.
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This can reduce the umpires' role to interpreter of the data produced by the agent, or obviate the need for an umpire altogether.
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Courts in warm-weather locations are more likely to be constructed on level ground, as the need for clearing snow and ice is obviated.
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Could any plan, however, be arranged for obviating these difficulties... he would most readily concur in carrying it into effect.
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It can also delay or obviate the need for surgery.
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The confidants' primary function is to obviate the need for monologues.
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Advances in film technology, notably finer film grain, have obviated the need for large-format cameras for most press assignments, however.
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Baker's yeast was adopted for the simpicity and flexibility it introduced to bread making, obviating the lengthy cultivation of a sourdough starter.
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These measures being improvised retrofits implied the need for a network pattern in which techniques such as these would be obviated by innovative design.
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Observation that some people were better leaders than others obviated a study of the personal traits of those leaders.
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