countervail
Example Sentences
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“The countervailing tension exists between avoiding estate tax through lifetime transfers and avoiding capital gains tax through step-up at death,” he says.
From MarketWatch
The Commerce Department will issue antidumping duty orders and countervailing duty orders on such imports as a result.
The 10-percent lumber tariff stacks on anti-dumping and countervailing duties the country faces, and the United States recently more than doubled these to 35 percent.
From Barron's
The countervailing question is whether Ms. Sears can present voters with an alternative.
But COVID, for me, felt like when the last link was cut, this old idea of democracy, that it could be sort of a countervailing force against power, tech, finance.
From Los Angeles Times
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