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countervail

[koun-ter-veyl] / ˌkaʊn tərˈveɪl /


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We depend on our memory to record, to learn and to recall, and we depend on forgetting to countervail, to sculpt and to squelch our memories.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022

And for years, the company’s actions and public statements have borne the imprint of Musk’s whims, with no moderating force to countervail them.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2018

It would countervail the teachings of the Apostle.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah

What thing is Love, which naught can countervail?

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 by Various

And this promised blessing of the Master himself is sufficient to countervail all the discouragements and hostility of the adversaries, thrown in the way of the reader and expositor.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David




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