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
Viewers are meant to think this banal instance of unseemly actions provides a counterbalance to the initial revelation about the other partner, but it’s not in the same moral universe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 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
There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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