cancel out
Example Sentences
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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
It can also cancel out disturbances that affect all of the atoms in the same way.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
The German DAX trades flat after a record close Friday as losses for banks and automakers cancel out gains for defense companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
If either of these ratios were to fall back below their lows of a couple of weeks ago, that would cancel out the sell signal.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
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.
