cancel out
Example Sentences
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Cook said in an interview published on Wednesday that Apple planned to raise its prices in a bid to cancel out the impact of surging memory and storage chip costs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
"But that doesn't make it OK," Pombo says, "one doesn't cancel out the other."
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
If two galaxies spinning in nearly opposite directions collided, their motions could cancel out.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
The standard advice for a central bank facing an oil shock is to look past it on the theory that the hit to growth and the boost to inflation roughly cancel out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
When a crest from one piston runs into a trough from the other, the two cancel out; if you look carefully at the pattern of ripples, you can see lines of still, wave-free water.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
