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

It will stick with the more ignorant and the populace, though men of wisdom may smile at it; and the reputation won with many will amply countervail the disdain of a few....

From Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Harris, Frank

That is, he suggests the question, whether the evils from foul air are not so great and so constant that they countervail the advantages of shelter.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The allowance made to wholesale purchasers will countervail the double voyage.

From The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Jefferson, Thomas