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
According to his purpose; therefore blest Doubtlesse they be, his knowledg that obtain, No Losse may countervail their blessed Gain.
From Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653) by Collins, Anne
And I will bring to you them that shall mightily and to the hilt against all countervail and denial prove that Privy Seal is a false and damnable traitor to thee and this goodly realm.
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another.
From Walt Whitman An Address by Ingersoll, Robert Green
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.