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

And that fact of itself would be sufficient to countervail almost any objection I might entertain to the passage of this bill not inspired by an imperative and inexorable sense of public duty.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

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

What thing is Love, which naught can countervail?

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 by Various