countervail

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We depend on our memory to record, to learn and to recall, and we depend on forgetting to countervail, to sculpt and to squelch our memories.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022

And for years, the company’s actions and public statements have borne the imprint of Musk’s whims, with no moderating force to countervail them.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2018

She will be on the side of their enemies, whenever a rupture shall take place; and no arrangement of their finances can countervail this circumstance.

From The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Jefferson, Thomas

There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail         another any more than one eyesight countervails another.

From Walt Whitman An Address by Ingersoll, Robert Green

The crown, th’ unfading crown, her soul inspires: ’Tis that, and that alone, can countervail The body’s treacheries, and the world’s assaults: On earth’s poor pay our famish’d virtue dies.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward