'obviate' in October: The Story of the Russian Revolution | Bookmarker

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(verb) to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action)

Sometimes political confrontation was obviated in a short-lived post-revolutionary burst of class camaraderie

—p.90 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville

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