counterbalance
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- uncounterbalanced adjective
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Over the past year, some stores raised prices, cut costs and canceled plans to counterbalance more expensive imports.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 2026
To counterbalance the hefty AI spending, Amazon has cut back in other areas, most notably among its white-collar workforce.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
They also sought better relations with the US as a counterbalance to their dependence on China, at a time when the Obama administration was making its celebrated "pivot" to Asia.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
Societies would need to eliminate all emissions they reasonably can, then counterbalance the "residual" emissions that cannot be removed.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025
Then Du Bois tore into Washington for the older man’s lack of a spiritual counterbalance to “the evils of Get and Grab.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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