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Contemporaneous accounts of Ms. Reade’s claim are counterweighted by the denials of her superiors at the time that she reported any misconduct, as well as inconsistencies in her retelling.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2020

The three girls moved to a mound of palm fronds, carefully removing them to reveal a rickety wooden trebuchet made of bamboo and counterweighted with coconuts.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

It was a bell-shaped affair of inertron, counterweighted with ultron, about eight feet high.

From The Airlords of Han by Paul, Frank R.

We Wyomings possessed one swooper completely sheathed with inertron and counterweighted with ultron.

From The Airlords of Han by Paul, Frank R.