counterbalance

Though the lamp is tall, it’s designed with a sturdy counterbalance and weighted base to keep it stable as you adjust it.

Personnel aboard the space station launched other thrusters as a counterbalance.

If Checkmate can deliver its promises, including on price, it will perform a valuable counterbalance in the skies above future battlefields.

The counterbalance to human society, that doesn’t exist with chimps, is our striving for egalitarianism in the group.

Everywhere, old athletes are thriving and providing a counterbalance to the harsh daily reminders of life’s fragility.

As an alternative religious player, says Greaves, the Satanic Temple provides yet another “counterbalance.”

The goal: to get them to reconsider Likud as a counterbalance to Bennett's scary religiosity.

Like it or not, some companies will need to function as a counterbalance if publishers are to survive as a species.

So to counterbalance the Court's criticism of our ancestors, let me say a word in their praise: they left us free to change.

This will nicely counterbalance the spectacle of street theater.

Within the National Church there was a great deal to counterbalance these injurious tendencies and check their growth.

Are not the motives of the incredulous man strong enough to counterbalance his passions?

The cause has been hindered in its action, or another cause has intervened to counterbalance the first.

This was a triumph for Mr. Gladstone of an entirely satisfactory character; but he had sore trials to counterbalance it.

The pommel, usually of steel, is roughly spherical or eight-sided, and serves as a counterbalance.