counterbalance
noun
a weight balancing another weight; an equal weight, power, or influence acting in opposition; counterpoise.
counterbalanced
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past participleof counterbalance.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof counterbalance.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
counterbalancenouna weight balancing another weight; an equal weight, power, or influence acting in opposition; counterpoise.
Example Sentences
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Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the opinions in Slaughter and Cook, handed them down as a paired set, as though one counterbalanced the other.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
To keep his equations from predicting a collapsing universe, he introduced the cosmological constant as a kind of repulsive effect in empty space that counterbalanced gravity.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Yet these worries have been counterbalanced in part by signs that the U.S. economy remains in good shape, with GDP growth remaining solid while the labor market is “hanging in there.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
But the impact was small because rising import costs were counterbalanced by falling demand as imports and exports dropped and manufacturing activity contracted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
More or less reflexively, he dropped into his equations something called the cosmological constant, which arbitrarily counterbalanced the effects of gravity, serving as a kind of mathematical pause button.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
