counterbalance

"We initially thought the kidney-protective effects of SGLT2 inhibitors might counterbalance the potential harms associated with DCCBs," said Dr. Agur.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

This provides a welcome counterbalance to the novel’s overabundance of side plots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“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

"And the best way to counterbalance it is with a living example, with reality,"

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

“Listen, I know what happened earlier was heavy stuff. The deliverance prayer can be pretty draining. But can I tell you something that might counterbalance what you heard here last night?”

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

But as fertility rates fall, migration counterbalances the negative effects of an ageing population and labour force contraction, the report said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

This distant mass counterbalances the Local Group's gravity.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026

But he cites longstanding maritime connections and the military police as reassuring counterbalances.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2023

Markley is alert to “the chum slick of glossy greenwashing” in the carbon lobby’s ads and counterbalances the outsize climate calamities with near-future predictions that feel a lot like the present.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

If intellectual progress carried with it inferior sociability, it would tend to be eliminated; the world would be to the stupid; it must carry with it something which counterbalances the anti-social tendency.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the opinions in Slaughter and Cook, handed them down as a paired set, as though one counterbalanced the other.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

To keep his equations from predicting a collapsing universe, he introduced the cosmological constant as a kind of repulsive effect in empty space that counterbalanced gravity.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026

There is certainly pain and grief involved in the Moriah Wilson story, but each such moment here is counterbalanced by another dazzling photo of the cyclist’s smiling face.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

You might wonder why this negative effect isn’t counterbalanced by the more upbeat mood of investors whose favorite team has won.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026

Darwin wondered incessantly about a mechanism of heredity that could achieve these counterbalanced properties.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

And then the relationship with Andi is so counterbalancing in a really delightful way.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Another is Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, which adviser Mike Casey, who is based in Alexandria, Va., suggested as a way to provide an inflation hedge for retirees — something that is important beyond simply counterbalancing stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

But Mr. Brown, in his refusal to credit counterbalancing positives, such as Roosevelt’s prodigious intellect or his genuine empathy for the less fortunate, risks reducing TR to a one-dimensional straw man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

"Our research suggests that the counterbalancing temperature and emission feedbacks should be considered to improve the accuracy of climate change predictions in the Arctic."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

“I will here express but one sentiment,” Hamilton warned his Federalist colleagues, “which is, the Dismemberment of our Empire will be a clear sacrifice...without any counterbalancing good.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis