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
She will be on the side of their enemies, whenever a rupture shall take place: and no arrangement of their finances can countervail this circumstance.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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Romeo and Juliet
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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