cancel out
Example Sentences
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The standard advice for a central bank facing an oil shock is to look past it, concluding that the hit to growth and the boost to inflation roughly cancel out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Further, you can’t simply cancel out the harms of consumption by putting all those clothes you purchased in hauls—at secondhand stores or otherwise—in your local donation bin when you’re done with them.
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026
This means the body does not clearly offset or "cancel out" the extra calories burned through movement.
From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026
"It shows us that differences need not cancel out each other when they can be celebrated together."
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
The other three forces are either short range, or are sometimes attractive and sometimes repulsive, so they tend to cancel out.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
