as in offset
to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective
the lavish present almost made up for her forgetting his birthday
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To ensure Villa have fuel in the tank in these final months of the season, Emery started to reduce his intense approach towards the end of 2024 to offset burnout.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025 -
Those cuts may impact Medicaid, the program that provides health benefits to 72 million low-income Americans, and food benefit programs, because fiscal conservatives in both chambers are pushing for deep deficit reductions to offset spending on tax programs.—
Riley Beggin,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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The network soon corrected that reporting to indicate that the suspect had not come across the border.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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While a yellow placard signals two or more major violations, these are typically corrected or mitigated during the inspection, according to the Sacramento County Food Inspection Guide.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacramento Bee,
3 Jan. 2025
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The threat has now been neutralized.—
Maya Eaglin,
NBC News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Proteins that were treated continued to be fluorescent, indicating that our thiol polymer neutralized the free radical and protected the protein.—
Aaron Priester,
The Conversation,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Made up (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/made%20up%20%28for%29. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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