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

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

Come what sorrow may, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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