counterbalance
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“Badlands,” where Springsteen exhorts, “talk about a dream, try to make it real,” comes after “Tom Joad” as a counterbalance to the tale of hope and despair that precedes it.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
"And the best way to counterbalance it is with a living example, with reality,"
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Noting that this year, professional juries were returning to the semi-finals as a counterbalance to the public vote, "we have one of the most safest, secure and fair voting systems," he told reporters.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Yet fears of layoffs might still act as a counterbalance.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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