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 Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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 Madox Ford
But whatever becomes of us, we are sure the adversary cannot countervail the King's damages.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
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Romeo and Juliet
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