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counterbalances

  • present tense form
    of counterbalance (3rd person singular).
    counterbalance
    noun
    a weight balancing another weight; an equal weight, power, or influence acting in opposition; counterpoise.

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But as fertility rates fall, migration counterbalances the negative effects of an ageing population and labour force contraction, the report said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

This distant mass counterbalances the Local Group's gravity.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026

There are moments of tender resplendence that are as piercing as the cruelty — compassion that counterbalances the inhumanities Elwood faces.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

But he cites longstanding maritime connections and the military police as reassuring counterbalances.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2023

If intellectual progress carried with it inferior sociability, it would tend to be eliminated; the world would be to the stupid; it must carry with it something which counterbalances the anti-social tendency.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams