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

It is this historico-cultural argument that has been advanced to the forefront; and against it, where is there found, in the preceding hostile summary of anatomical facts, even the feeblest countervail?

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

What doubt in thee could countervail Belief in it?

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Neither can we, who follow them, be excused from the same, or greater errors; which are the more unpardonable in us, because we want their beauties to countervail our faults.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir