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countervail

[koun-ter-veyl] / ˌkaʊn tərˈveɪl /


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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

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

It will stick with the more ignorant and the populace, though men of wisdom may smile at it; and the reputation won with many will amply countervail the disdain of a few....

From Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Harris, Frank

Is there nothing in all this to countervail the dangers, the evils, and the vicissitudes attendant on this splendid and public exercise of talent?

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)




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