counterbalance
Example Sentences
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“This factor acts as a counterbalance to geopolitical optimism, limiting the magnitude of upward moves.”
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Over the past year, some stores raised prices, cut costs and canceled plans to counterbalance more expensive imports.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 2026
A classical stadium at its end would counterbalance the Greek-temple-inspired Lincoln Memorial at the opposite terminus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
Societies would need to eliminate all emissions they reasonably can, then counterbalance the "residual" emissions that cannot be removed.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025
This, he wrote, made it more important than ever to provide a counterbalance of “dense, broad, luxuriant green bodies of foliage.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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