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.
• It’s just nice to be honest about the gruesomeness of it — a reminder of the yuck, which does not obviate the yum.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2021
• The abundance of craft beer has, for many beer lovers, obviated the need to do it yourself.
  — Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2019
• The technique would obviate the need to cut large slabs of metal into the product’s shape.
  — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
• The movement is wound and set via the bezel, obviating the need for a conventional crown.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 24 Nov. 2023
• 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
• This argument doesn’t obviate the old concerns, but rather adds to them.
  — Frank Partnoy, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Well, without a wire, that entire issue is obviated, and moreover, the stem of the AirPods sits flush with the side of my face and helps to anchor them in place.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 19 Mar. 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
• In an ideal world, the forms that Carter and Delmore-Sullivan had signed would have obviated the need for that question.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024
• 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
• The system does obviate the need for hand-over-hand steering maneuvers, such as when parking.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2023
• Reportedly, there will be enough ports to obviate the need for dongles.
  — Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• Although the trade deal should obviate much of that, some customs checks and headaches undoubtedly lie ahead.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 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
• 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
• Payment would be viewed as blood money, an atonement to wash away German sins – and, of course, nothing could ever obviate the evil of the Third Reich.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2023
• No amount of money obviates the costs of fighting gravity.
  — Mark Mills, Fortune, 5 June 2017
• Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said the ceiling would have to be raised by June 1 to obviate any chance of a government default.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• Of course, none of this will obviate the possibility of a mugger or border guard waving your $999 iPhone X in front of your alarmed face to unlock it.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2017
• Those two tunnels, feeding the massive, arching diffuser, do yeoman’s work of sucking the car to the road, obviating the need for large wings on the car’s topside.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 12 July 2017
• There’s no other body that can obviate state laws except Congress.
  — Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2022
• In many ways, cryptocurrencies were invented to obviate the need for banks.
  — Patricia Kowsmann, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2022
• This would obviate the need for patents and make a huge amount of unpatentable research available for commercialization.
  — Paul J. Marangos, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
• The temperate climate obviates the need for heated floors, and a bidet would almost seem anachronistic.
  — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 15 June 2024
• Spending a few minutes shaking everyone's hand before the flight leaves the gate obviates a potential headache for the pilots and crew.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• Youngsters took the sun and air on the terraces, apparently in all seasons, with some good results, until the invention of drug therapies for TB in the 1940s obviated the need for heliotropic hospitals.
  — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2024
• The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday would have obviated some of that, because there would have been fewer possible legal questions stemming from the decision.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024