cancel out
Example Sentences
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Research looking at how to protect the future of England's largest lake showed potential to "fully cancel out" the projected impact of climate change on it.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Any amount you convert is subject to income-tax rates of up to 37%—but the senior deduction can help cancel out that tax, Adams says.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
The standard advice for a central bank facing an oil shock is to look past it on the theory that the hit to growth and the boost to inflation roughly cancel out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
If either of these ratios were to fall back below their lows of a couple of weeks ago, that would cancel out the sell signal.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
The virtual particle/antiparticle pairs of spin Vi and Vi would have negative energy, and so would tend to cancel out the positive energy of the spin 2, 1, and 0 virtual pairs.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
