outbalance
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of outbalance
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“If it really is much more transmissible, just the quantity alone of people getting infected could outbalance the positive nature of it being less severe,” he added.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
“Temporarily narrowing restrictions on the size of mass gatherings, including for religious services, does not outbalance the health and well-being of Nevada citizens,” it said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
But Linehan is convinced that the positives of the web outbalance the negatives, that eventually it will become a meritocracy, uncovering talent that would otherwise stay hidden.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2010
Professor Fisher adroitly admitted most of the facts against which Wets have complained but insisted that even these facts do not outbalance the larger benefits of Prohibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every act of locomotion implies the expenditure of certain internal mechanical forces, adapted in amounts and directions to balance or outbalance certain external ones.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
This decisively outbalanced the "feel-good factor" produced by the fact that the country has the strongest economy in Europe--its best in 50 years--and most people have never earned so much.
From Time Magazine Archive
These two losses outbalanced a half-victory in Wisconsin, a moral victory in Illinois and four victories by default in other states.
From Time Magazine Archive
It must be acknowledged that when not abused there are points in favour of its employment in preference to sodium sulphite, but these are outbalanced by certain disadvantages.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney
All was so novel and so exciting that the Columbus instinct outbalanced the romantic one.
From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis
The advantage, whatever it may be, is utterly outbalanced by numerical inferiority.
From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George
Happily outbalancing that were saltwater views, strawberry fields, shady tunnels of trees and wooden trestles over ponds and inlets.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
For just as Gustav Mahler might stand as an instance of musicianly temperament fatally outweighing musicianly intellect, so Arnold Schoenberg might stand as an example of the equally excessive outbalancing of sensibility by brain-stuff.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul
"Nay, Sahib!" he answered, his better judgment outbalancing the desire for money.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry
Nay, 'twere a task outbalancing thy power, Nor can the almost-omnipotence of mind Away from aching bind the bleeding heart, Or keep at will its mighty sorrow down.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
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