counterbalance

Example Sentences

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Over the past year, some stores raised prices, cut costs and canceled plans to counterbalance more expensive imports.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 2026

Pratt found solace in his own creative artwork every evening, she explained, a counterbalance to the grisliness he confronted all day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

They also sought better relations with the US as a counterbalance to their dependence on China, at a time when the Obama administration was making its celebrated "pivot" to Asia.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

Societies would need to eliminate all emissions they reasonably can, then counterbalance the "residual" emissions that cannot be removed.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025

By outlining the cyclotron’s vast potential for advancing the peacetime goals of basic science, Ernest convinced Fosdick that the machine just might serve as a beneficent scientific counterbalance to Hiroshima.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik