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
No time was to be lost, and measures were immediately taken to countervail these designs.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
And what mighty mischief will result to countervail the application of this rule of justice?
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
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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Romeo and Juliet
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