cancel out
Example Sentences
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Failure to pay can result in a jail term - but even that doesn't cancel out the debt.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Any amount you convert is subject to income-tax rates of up to 37%—but the senior deduction can help cancel out that tax, Adams says.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
Two weeks later, higher gasoline and energy prices stemming from the conflict could cancel out the effects of those higher refunds, economists say.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 2026
It can also cancel out disturbances that affect all of the atoms in the same way.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
That would help cancel out the scents I remembered from the processing shed.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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