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

And this promised blessing of the Master himself is sufficient to countervail all the discouragements and hostility of the adversaries, thrown in the way of the reader and expositor.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

But whatever becomes of us, we are sure the adversary cannot countervail the King's damages.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton

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