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

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 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 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

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