countervail

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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

What censures, then, can I have in reserve to countervail such praises?

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

No time was to be lost, and measures were immediately taken to countervail these designs.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

Neither can we, who follow them, be excused from the same, or greater errors; which are the more unpardonable in us, because we want their beauties to countervail our faults.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir