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counterbalance

verb as in offset an action

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As an alternative religious player, says Greaves, the Satanic Temple provides yet another “counterbalance.”

The goal: to get them to reconsider Likud as a counterbalance to Bennett's scary religiosity.

Like it or not, some companies will need to function as a counterbalance if publishers are to survive as a species.

So to counterbalance the Court's criticism of our ancestors, let me say a word in their praise: they left us free to change.

This will nicely counterbalance the spectacle of street theater.

Within the National Church there was a great deal to counterbalance these injurious tendencies and check their growth.

Are not the motives of the incredulous man strong enough to counterbalance his passions?

The cause has been hindered in its action, or another cause has intervened to counterbalance the first.

This was a triumph for Mr. Gladstone of an entirely satisfactory character; but he had sore trials to counterbalance it.

The pommel, usually of steel, is roughly spherical or eight-sided, and serves as a counterbalance.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to counterbalance, such as: counteract, outweigh, rectify, amend, balance, and cancel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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