counterbalance
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“Badlands,” where Springsteen exhorts, “talk about a dream, try to make it real,” comes after “Tom Joad” as a counterbalance to the tale of hope and despair that precedes it.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
“This factor acts as a counterbalance to geopolitical optimism, limiting the magnitude of upward moves.”
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Over the past year, some stores raised prices, cut costs and canceled plans to counterbalance more expensive imports.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 2026
To counterbalance the hefty AI spending, Amazon has cut back in other areas, most notably among its white-collar workforce.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
This, he wrote, made it more important than ever to provide a counterbalance of “dense, broad, luxuriant green bodies of foliage.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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