cancel out
Example Sentences
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"But that doesn't make it OK," Pombo says, "one doesn't cancel out the other."
From BBC • May 15, 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
It can also cancel out disturbances that affect all of the atoms in the same way.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
The good stuff seemed to cancel out the hating part, but he wasn’t sure because feelings were not math.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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