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counterbalance

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counterbalance
a weight or force that balances or offsets another


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Why, the counterbalance that lifts the whole of this wall on to its pivot.
If the periods be distant from each other, the same remark will be applicable to all recent measures; and in proportion as the remoteness of the others may favor a dispassionate review of them, this advantage is inseparable from inconveniences which seem to counterbalance it.
The invigorating influences of this excess of oxygen upon the Martians indisputably did much to counterbalance the increased weight of their bodies.
 
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