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
There was nothing, therefore, to outbalance this unfavourable report, but the apparent malignity and grossness of those who gave it.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
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
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
It must be acknowledged that when not abused there are points in favour of its employment in preference to sodium sulphite, but these are outbalanced by certain disadvantages.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
The half-hundredweight of Cherry Hill and Marbledown outbalanced Belton's plain facts and ocular demonstrations.
From A Safety Match by Ian Hay
The favorable termination of her illness was a joy which far outbalanced the loss of his money, and he was as cheerful and contented as ever.
From Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks by Oliver Optic
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
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
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, Sahib!" he answered, his better judgment outbalancing the desire for money.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
