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countervail

[koun-ter-veyl] / ˌkaʊn tərˈveɪl /


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We depend on our memory to record, to learn and to recall, and we depend on forgetting to countervail, to sculpt and to squelch our memories.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022

And for years, the company’s actions and public statements have borne the imprint of Musk’s whims, with no moderating force to countervail them.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2018

Come what sorrow may, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Testimony of opposite results in the smaller islands would hardly countervail it.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

It would countervail the teachings of the Apostle.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah




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