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counterbalance

[kaun-ter-bal-uhns, kaun-ter-bal-uhns] / ˈkaʊn tərˌbæl əns, ˌkaʊn tərˈbæl əns /


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The album's a companion piece and a counterbalance to Days of Ash and Easter Lily.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

Then Du Bois tore into Washington for the older man’s lack of a spiritual counterbalance to “the evils of Get and Grab.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

There also need to be counterbalances and checks outside of government, such as independent journalism.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2022

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

To keep his equations from predicting a collapsing universe, he introduced the cosmological constant as a kind of repulsive effect in empty space that counterbalanced gravity.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 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

There is certainly pain and grief involved in the Moriah Wilson story, but each such moment here is counterbalanced by another dazzling photo of the cyclist’s smiling face.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

More or less reflexively, he dropped into his equations something called the cosmological constant, which arbitrarily counterbalanced the effects of gravity, serving as a kind of mathematical pause button.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

But Mr. Brown, in his refusal to credit counterbalancing positives, such as Roosevelt’s prodigious intellect or his genuine empathy for the less fortunate, risks reducing TR to a one-dimensional straw man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 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


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