How to Use obviate in a Sentence

obviate

verb
  • The new medical treatment obviates the need for surgery.
  • The new treatment obviates many of the risks associated with surgery.
  • Power, when claimed in this way, obviates the need for reason.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The abundance of craft beer has, for many beer lovers, obviated the need to do it yourself.
    — Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2019
  • This argument doesn’t obviate the old concerns, but rather adds to them.
    — Frank Partnoy, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Scott’s full-body acting and wide-spectrum voice has obviated the need.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The technique would obviate the need to cut large slabs of metal into the product’s shape.
    — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • All of this math, these stats, and the quest for the best value completely obviate the search for real love.
    — Myisha Battle, Time, 20 June 2025
  • Rooftop solar, on the other hand, would obviate the need for expanding the grid.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • This carrier said that the predictable cost obviates the need to track spending.
    — Zeus Kerravala, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Reportedly, there will be enough ports to obviate the need for dongles.
    — Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • The movement is wound and set via the bezel, obviating the need for a conventional crown.
    — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The system does obviate the need for hand-over-hand steering maneuvers, such as when parking.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That should result in your DM list being up to date, which obviates the problem.
    — Andrew Couts, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Although the trade deal should obviate much of that, some customs checks and headaches undoubtedly lie ahead.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Often, the liquid gets poured right to the brim, obviating any attempt at swirling and sniffing.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022
  • In other places, the terrain would obviate the need for a wall; in some places, aircraft and land patrols would suffice.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The two obviously had a meeting of the minds that obviated the need to spell out their references.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Issue 9 could obviate all of that work, which raises the question of whether that is the real intention.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2022
  • What if, however, clients learn how to use AI in ways that obviate consultants?
    — Scott D. Anthony, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The new ballroom should obviate the need for use of tents on the South Lawn of the White House for big events.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 24 Oct. 2025
  • There’s the fact that women generally are paid less than men, which tends to obviate the question of who should be the one to quit if there’s a crisis.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
  • There’s the fact that women generally are paid less than men, which tends to obviate the question of who should be the one to quit if there’s a crisis.
    — Author: Amy Joyce, Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • It will not be built, obviating the need to compel Mexico to pay for it, which wouldn't happen anyways.
    — Jeb Lund, Esquire, 19 Oct. 2016
  • That is more than enough space to build a new arena, obviating the need to demolish City Hall for that purpose.
    — Mark Lamster architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Conveying a very hawkish signal about the outlook for rates may obviate the need to actually raise them.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The process is called in-ovo sexing, and such technologies, versions of which are already deployed in some countries, can obviate the need for live chick culling.
    — Jonathan Moens, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Maybe Anthropic obviates me, too.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2026
  • To obviate Russia’s threat, Ukraine does not need to kill off every Russian soldier.
    — Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Anthropic is supposed to be able to obviate what Workday does in human resources and finance.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026

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