countervail
Example Sentences
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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
And I will bring to you them that shall mightily and to the hilt against all countervail and denial prove that Privy Seal is a false and damnable traitor to thee and this goodly realm.
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
My care doth countervail that care of thine, And yet my Chloris draws her angry breath; My hopes still hoping hopeless now repine, For living she doth add to me but death.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote
That is, he suggests the question, whether the evils from foul air are not so great and so constant, that they countervail the advantages of shelter.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
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Romeo and Juliet
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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