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Though the lamp is tall, it’s designed with a sturdy counterbalance and weighted base to keep it stable as you adjust it.
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Personnel aboard the space station launched other thrusters as a counterbalance.
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If Checkmate can deliver its promises, including on price, it will perform a valuable counterbalance in the skies above future battlefields.
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The counterbalance to human society, that doesn’t exist with chimps, is our striving for egalitarianism in the group.
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Everywhere, old athletes are thriving and providing a counterbalance to the harsh daily reminders of life’s fragility.
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The company has positioned itself as a counterbalance to Amazon’s dominance, allowing budding entrepreneurs to set up their own shops and sell to customers directly rather than having to default to putting their wares on Amazon’s massive marketplace.
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Within the National Church there was a great deal to counterbalance these injurious tendencies and check their growth.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYCHARLES J. ABBEY AND JOHN H. OVERTON
Are not the motives of the incredulous man strong enough to counterbalance his passions?
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER
The cause has been hindered in its action, or another cause has intervened to counterbalance the first.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
This was a triumph for Mr. Gladstone of an entirely satisfactory character; but he had sore trials to counterbalance it.
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WORDS RELATED TO COUNTERBALANCE

  • array
  • confront
  • contrast
  • counter
  • counterbalance
  • face
  • match
  • pit
  • set against
  • vie
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