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

To counterbalance the hefty AI spending, Amazon has cut back in other areas, most notably among its white-collar workforce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 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

This, he wrote, made it more important than ever to provide a counterbalance of “dense, broad, luxuriant green bodies of foliage.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson