countervail
Example Sentences
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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
And that fact of itself would be sufficient to countervail almost any objection I might entertain to the passage of this bill not inspired by an imperative and inexorable sense of public duty.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
It would countervail the teachings of the Apostle.
From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Nehemiah Adams
There are, it is true, dangers inseparable from symbolism, which countervail its advantages, and afford an impressive lesson in regard to the similar risks attendant on the use of language.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
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Romeo and Juliet
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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