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counterbalance

verb as in offset an action

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Now we have, as a counterbalance to a lurid male gaze as the season’s new opera for L.A.

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"The recent rally was extremely steep, so this is the counterbalance."

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AWS is crucial for Amazon’s appeal to investors, counterbalancing an online retail operation that is much larger in scope but delivers much thinner margins.

This biography astutely portrays how “Diggs’s personal failures and weaknesses” counterbalanced his impressive professional strengths and prematurely ended a career of no little significance.

A national policy that establishes rules around water practices but also prioritizes the use of water resources for national security and a collective interest could counterbalance the forces of habit and special interests, Salzberg said.

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