countervail

Example Sentences

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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

His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

That is, he suggests the question, whether the evils from foul air are not so great and so constant that they countervail the advantages of shelter.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John