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countervail

verb as in offset

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There are plenty of ways where the countervailing messages to push back on Trump's use of racism and sexism can become very painful for him and his campaign.

From Salon

She concluded last month that the protection of the boss' identity was necessary to "secure the proper administration of justice", adding there was "no sufficient countervailing public interest" in his name being disclosed.

From BBC

“But there are countervailing considerations given the threat that we face.”

Instead, the state could “combat ‘woke’ ideas with countervailing views in the ‘marketplace of ideas’ …”

Truman would make his countervailing position clear later, in the second volume of his memoirs:

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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