outbalance
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“If it really is much more transmissible, just the quantity alone of people getting infected could outbalance the positive nature of it being less severe,” he added.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
“Temporarily narrowing restrictions on the size of mass gatherings, including for religious services, does not outbalance the health and well-being of Nevada citizens,” it said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
But Linehan is convinced that the positives of the web outbalance the negatives, that eventually it will become a meritocracy, uncovering talent that would otherwise stay hidden.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2010
Professor Fisher adroitly admitted most of the facts against which Wets have complained but insisted that even these facts do not outbalance the larger benefits of Prohibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
This does not outbalance that which is not denied.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
This decisively outbalanced the "feel-good factor" produced by the fact that the country has the strongest economy in Europe--its best in 50 years--and most people have never earned so much.
From Time Magazine Archive
These two losses outbalanced a half-victory in Wisconsin, a moral victory in Illinois and four victories by default in other states.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once or twice he lost, but these occasions were far outbalanced by several brilliant coups.
From The Swindler and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
It afforded him opportunities for private trade at first hand, instead of through agents, that in the mind of an adventurous young man quite outbalanced the perils of the sea.
From The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by J. (John) Biddulph
There was a certain hauteur in the set of the demoiselle’s head, which outbalanced the mischief in her eyes.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Happily outbalancing that were saltwater views, strawberry fields, shady tunnels of trees and wooden trestles over ponds and inlets.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
For just as Gustav Mahler might stand as an instance of musicianly temperament fatally outweighing musicianly intellect, so Arnold Schoenberg might stand as an example of the equally excessive outbalancing of sensibility by brain-stuff.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
Nay, 'twere a task outbalancing thy power, Nor can the almost-omnipotence of mind Away from aching bind the bleeding heart, Or keep at will its mighty sorrow down.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
"Nay, Sahib!" he answered, his better judgment outbalancing the desire for money.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
