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The US Constitution was designed to balance interests through a system of countervailing powers.
countervailing = counterbalance

She wants the U.S. to harden its cybersecurity to countervail increasingly sophisticated cyberattack capabilities.
countervail = neutralize

They passed countervailing tariffs.
countervailing = offsetting (intended to counterbalance)

The United States imposes countervailing duties on imported products that allegedly received foreign government subsidies. (source) James Bovard, The Myth of Fair Trade

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

But he saw that other factors were exerting a countervailing force. (source)
countervailing = opposing or counterbalancing

Without the countervailing force of labor unions, companies will increasingly seek out and exploit the most vulnerable members of society. (source) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, 2001
countervailing = opposing (to counterbalance something else)

Only Eli Lavon dared to offer a countervailing opinion. (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

The silk bordure was furred with countervail silver and blue. (source)
countervail = counterbalance, neutralize, counteract, or offset

I sat staring before me, trying in vain to devise some countervailing thought. (source)
countervailing = counterbalancing

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

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) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855
countervails = neutralizes

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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) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855
countervail = neutralize

But come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight. (source)
countervail = offset (counterbalance with equal weight)

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