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
I cannot acquit myself of having indirectly contributed to debauch the taste of a simple folk; but I hope that the end I had in view may finally outbalance this heavy charge.
From The Three Impostors or The Transmutations by Machen, Arthur
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
Menteith's private character was so excellent, and such was the rank and consideration due to his fortune and family, that they outbalanced, in Sir Duncan's opinion, the difference in their political opinions.
From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir
In the corridor, she met Lord Heyton, and he looked so ill, so careworn, that, for a moment, her dislike of him was outbalanced by pity.
From The Woman's Way by Garvice, Charles
It afforded him opportunities for private trade at first hand, instead of through agents, that in the mind of an adventurous young man quite outbalanced the perils of the sea.
From The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by Biddulph, J. (John)
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
"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
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
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