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发音：[ˈɑbviˌeɪt]
例句：
- To obviate means to prevent or avoid something from happening, especially by taking necessary actions or finding alternatives. It involves eliminating the need for or making something unnecessary or irrelevant. It is like finding a solution or doing something in a way that eliminates the problem or makes it go away. It helps to overcome difficulties or challenges by addressing them directly or by finding effective alternatives.
- The White House has launched a website to centralize reporting of attacks and provide guidance on enhancing resilience, such as implementing secure offline data backups to obviate the need for ransom payments if a company’s data is held hostage.
- While the drug could generate substantial sales of up to $7.7 billion, numerous companies, including AstraZeneca, are currently developing and evaluating experimental vaccines that have the potential to obviate the necessity for coronavirus treatments within a relatively short timeframe ranging from months to years.
- In principle, the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR has the capacity to obviate the requirement for all of these therapeutic strategies.
- Through the utilization of immersive technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and AI-equipped sex robots, these practitioners foster more profound connections, effectively obviating the requirement for a human partner in some instances.
- Car services such as Uber and Lyft can be viewed as instances of covert automation, where an algorithm guides a pool of independent drivers, largely obviating the need for extensive training, which has been greatly diminished by the prevalence of GPS navigation systems.
解释：
- Obviate这个单词做动词使用，其表示“to eliminate the need for something，or to prevent or avoid something from happening in advance”这一含义，即“排除/消除/避免/预防”，与prevent/ avert/ forbid/ preclude/ forestall这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Java software enjoys widespread usage and offers enhanced functionality in web browsers through the provision of cross-platform code, which theoretically obviates the requirement to develop platform-specific code for Windows or Apple’s Mac OSX.（Java软件被广泛使用，并通过提供跨平台代码在Web浏览器中提供增强的功能，这在理论上消除了为Windows或Apple的Mac OSX开发特定于平台的代码的需求。）
–Technology - By utilizing a mobile map application, one can effectively obviate the necessity of relying on others, thus depriving oneself of the opportunity to encounter the benevolence of an unfamiliar individual who graciously provides guidance to a nearby store or cinema.（通过使用移动地图应用程序，人们可以有效地避免依赖他人的必要性，从而剥夺了自己遇到不熟悉的人的仁慈的机会，这些人慷慨地为附近的商店或电影院提供指导。）
–Science - According to a spokesperson from American Express, the company’s business practices have undergone extensive scrutiny by banking regulators in recent years, thus obviating, in a substantial way, its reliance on class actions.（据美国运通发言人称，该公司的商业行为近年来受到银行监管机构的广泛审查，从而在很大程度上避免了对集体诉讼的依赖。）
–Business - The crucial finding is that the fundamental blockchain technology has the potential to obviate the necessity of centralized authorities in situations where they were previously considered essential.（关键的发现是，基本的区块链技术有可能在以前被认为必不可少的情况下消除集中式当局的必要性。）
–Technology - Your brain utilizes incomplete and imperfect information to construct this mental representation and relies on idiosyncratic neural processes to frequently—but not consistently—obviate the shortcomings.（你的大脑利用不完整和不完美的信息来构建这种心理表征，并依靠特质神经过程来经常，但不是始终如一地，排除缺点。）
–Medicine
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