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As I’ve reported before, carbon offsets don’t necessarily cancel out emissions from somewhere else.

It works by drilling a hole through the tenon that is slightly offset from a hole in the mortise, so when you drive a dowel through the two holes, it pulls them into alignment, thus tightly joining the pieces of wood.

That lab work costs $2,000 per DNA sample, officials said Thursday, an expense that the grant funding will help offset.

Hitting a net zero target requires using every available technology to decarbonize energy systems—and then using mitigating options or other technology to offset those emissions that are harder to eliminate.

From Fortune

Apple is betting that the fee change will result in developers creating more apps and sticking with the App Store, which will create enough new revenue to offset any potential financial negatives from the fee reductions.

From Fortune

When it comes to offsetting the negativity of disgust, does pride really work just as well as serenity?

He won on unemployment benefits, on which Senate Republicans didn't even demand offsetting cuts.

After two years, the middle-class cuts would also expire unless Congress paid for them with offsetting savings or tax increases.

But as the economy strengthens, interest rates will rise, offsetting some of the recovery's beneficial effect on the deficit.

The offsetting obligation to pay claims is contingent, unfixed and off on the horizon.

There is a little trick in offsetting pipe that one will have to practice to obtain.

As offsetting this, however, Coquenil secured information that connected Mrs. Wilmott directly with Martinez.

This conception combines two essentially irreconcilable ideas, offsetting each by the other.

They feel that they would be doing a public service in offsetting the demagoguery and sensationalism of most of the popular press.

The beneficial result is an offsetting of that morbid condition,—that utter want of self-confidence.

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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to offsetting, such as: redeeming, and remunerative.

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

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