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

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

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

And what mighty mischief will result to countervail the application of this rule of justice?

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)