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countervail
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  • The United States imposes countervailing duties on imported products that allegedly received foreign government subsidies.  (source)
  • Wal-Mart developed a new program to countervail Target's ad campaign.
    countervail = counteract
  • They claim the international law is countervailed by their national interest.
    countervailed = neutralized
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  • The silk bordure was furred with countervail silver and blue.  (source)
    countervail = counterbalance, neutralize, counteract, or offset
  • But he saw that other factors were exerting a countervailing force.  (source)
    countervailing = opposing or counterbalancing
  • There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.  (source)
    countervails = neutralizes
  • Gowns and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.  (source)
    countervail = counterbalance, neutralize, counteract, or offset
  • Only Eli Lavon dared to offer a countervailing opinion.  (source)
    countervailing = opposing (to counterbalance something else)
  • There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.  (source)
    countervails = neutralizes
  • But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.  (source)
    countervail = counterbalance
  • Without the countervailing force of labor unions, companies will increasingly seek out and exploit the most vulnerable members of society.  (source)
    countervailing = opposing (to counterbalance something else)
  • If thou dive, I will not follow thee upon the gallop, But I will beat my wings above the pitch; The height be left, and be the bank a shield To see if thou alone dost countervail us.  (source)
    countervail = counterbalance, neutralize, counteract, or offset
  • I sat staring before me, trying in vain to devise some countervailing thought.  (source)
    countervailing = counterbalancing
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