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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The gags are counterbalanced by generous helpings of schmaltz, with much talk of the power of the feminine and how sisterhood defeats all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
You might wonder why this negative effect isn’t counterbalanced by the more upbeat mood of investors whose favorite team has won.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
Darwin wondered incessantly about a mechanism of heredity that could achieve these counterbalanced properties.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
