Examples of counterweight in a Sentence

The crane has a heavy counterweight on the back. hard work can often be a counterweight to modest intelligence

Recent Examples on the Web The Panther’s turret is bigger with sharper angles and a much larger overhang over the engine compartment, the latter to both store larger, heavier main gun ammunition and to act as a counterweight to the new 130-millimeter main gun. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2022 Biden was meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and their counterparts from India and Australia for the Quad, an Indo-Pacific security and economic coalition meant as a counterweight to China’s growing influence in the region. — Fox News, 26 May 2022 His comments Tuesday came during a meeting of the Quad, a partnership of influential Indo-Pacific democracies widely seen as a counterweight to China. — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 24 May 2022 The Quad has increasingly been seen as a counterweight to China’s growing reach in the region, with all four nations experiencing turbulent relations with Beijing over the past few years. — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 May 2022 The cryptocurrency market, pitched as a counterweight to traditional stocks, is sinking. — Justin Baer, WSJ, 21 May 2022 Robinson views it as a counterweight to the environmental degradation and poverty that has so often afflicted Richmond, one of the poorest communities in the Bay Area. — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022 Its appeal as a counterweight to Tesla, highly regarded investors and 12-year buildup to production haven't been enough to protect its stock price from a downturn hitting nearly all electric vehicles companies. — Matt Mcfarland, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022 Five years ago on Earth Day, the Smithsonian convened the first-ever global Earth Optimism Summit as a counterweight to what seemed like overwhelmingly bad news about species and ecosystem decline and climate catastrophe. — Ruth Anna Stolk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022 See More

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