counterbalance

Because the area near the anode tends to become acidic while the area near the cathode becomes alkaline, bringing these regions closer together and circulating the liquid helps counterbalance their effects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The other factor, Campell and Doshi say, is interdependence in the form of growing economic, technological, and military ties to counterbalance China’s industrial might.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

“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

“Listen, I know what happened earlier was heavy stuff. The deliverance prayer can be pretty draining. But can I tell you something that might counterbalance what you heard here last night?”

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

What’s more, there’s an ease to all of these things — a soft tenderness that counterbalances the frigidity — as if such intensity comes casually.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

But as fertility rates fall, migration counterbalances the negative effects of an ageing population and labour force contraction, the report said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

This distant mass counterbalances the Local Group's gravity.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026

But he cites longstanding maritime connections and the military police as reassuring counterbalances.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2023

For the cartoonists—when greatness bred cartoons, as by one of the world's kindly counterbalances it does—he was always stouter in body and more stolid in countenance than a faithful photograph would have recorded him.

From Second String by Anthony Hope

Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the opinions in Slaughter and Cook, handed them down as a paired set, as though one counterbalanced the other.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Yet these worries have been counterbalanced in part by signs that the U.S. economy remains in good shape, with GDP growth remaining solid while the labor market is “hanging in there.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

But that gap was counterbalanced, according to the data, by the fact that the department lost 204 more sworn employees to attrition under Villanueva than it did under Luna over the same periods.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

This biography astutely portrays how “Diggs’s personal failures and weaknesses” counterbalanced his impressive professional strengths and prematurely ended a career of no little significance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

The Mechagodzilla’s slow movement and attacks counterbalanced its seeming invulnerability.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

And then the relationship with Andi is so counterbalancing in a really delightful way.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Another is Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, which adviser Mike Casey, who is based in Alexandria, Va., suggested as a way to provide an inflation hedge for retirees — something that is important beyond simply counterbalancing stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

AWS is crucial for Amazon’s appeal to investors, counterbalancing an online retail operation that is much larger in scope but delivers much thinner margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

"Our research suggests that the counterbalancing temperature and emission feedbacks should be considered to improve the accuracy of climate change predictions in the Arctic."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

“I will here express but one sentiment,” Hamilton warned his Federalist colleagues, “which is, the Dismemberment of our Empire will be a clear sacrifice...without any counterbalancing good.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis