counterweight

Example Sentences

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At the Blue Note, Jean performs a kind of Haitian exceptionalism: a sensorially rich, festal theater that serves as a necessary counterweight to the country’s grim realities of poverty and political neglect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Days later, Carney delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he urged smaller nations to band together as an economic counterweight to larger powers.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

Under these conditions, Japan is in a position to play an even greater geopolitical role than simply a regional counterweight to China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Bonds have long played a crucial role as a counterweight to equity volatility during periods of stress, and represent the safe-haven component of the traditional 60/40 portfolio mix for investors with a moderate risk tolerance.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

But this was the counterweight, the act of binding and holding.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes