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

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

To this end, she began to cast about for some cunning wizard who might countervail the plots of this malicious witch.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

Come what sorrow may, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)