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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a countervailing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that acts against or offsets another force or influence.
Example: "The new regulations serve as a countervailing force to the existing market trends, ensuring fair competition."
Alternatives: "an opposing" or "a balancing".
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Democracy can be a countervailing force.
A countervailing movement was afoot, however.
with a countervailing arsenal in her handbag.
So a countervailing influence must be introduced.
Yet there remains a countervailing power.
It meets a countervailing force or splits in two.
But there is a countervailing point to be made.
We've got to try to provide a countervailing story".
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One advantage of a countervailing-duty petition, he said, is that the process includes strict deadlines.
As reported above, one study describes the BRICS alliance as presenting a 'countervailing force' to Western-dominated prescriptions for global health.
Yet, paradoxically, Malick's fourth archetypal figure, that of the priest (Javier Bardem), offers a countervailing critique of Catholicism.
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