countervail

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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

According to his purpose; therefore blest Doubtlesse they be, his knowledg that obtain, No Losse may countervail their blessed Gain.

From Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653) by Collins, Anne

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

Is there nothing in all this to countervail the dangers, the evils, and the vicissitudes attendant on this splendid and public exercise of talent?

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)