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as in stable
having full use of one's mind and control over one's actions
no balanced person would believe that their dog's bark was actually the voice of God
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as in symmetrical
having the parts agreeably related
a balanced arrangement of the furniture made the room look more spacious
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as in equated
to make equal in amount, degree, or status
tried to balance the total amount of money spent on gifts for each child
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as in hesitated
to show uncertainty about the right course of action
his tendency to balance and waffle on certain hot-button issues may hurt him in the general election
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as in paid
to give what is owed for
she had to balance her account with the hotel before checking out of her room
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Recent Examples of balanced
Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
One of two undefeated girls teams left this season, along with Class 2A Simla, balanced Montrose has three players averaging double-digit scoring in senior forward Mayce Oberg, senior guard Maggie Legg and freshman guard Landree Johnson.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2026
Florals and chintz feel right again, particularly when they are balanced with antiques and warm woods.
—Lauren Jones, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
Like other fruit trees, apple trees do well with a balanced 10-10-10 organic granular fertilizer.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
One of two undefeated girls teams left this season, along with Class 2A Simla, balanced Montrose has three players averaging double-digit scoring in senior forward Mayce Oberg, senior guard Maggie Legg and freshman guard Landree Johnson.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
Verb
Metal makes a modern statement that's balanced by more rustic wood elements in the garden.
—Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2026
Florals and chintz feel right again, particularly when they are balanced with antiques and warm woods.
—Lauren Jones, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for balanced
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Yet, history repeatedly shows that destroying a regime is far easier than building a stable political infrastructure in its aftermath.—
Ghassan E. El-Eid,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2026
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Washington and Seoul should now shift toward a policy of stable coexistence — focusing on deterrence rather than denuclearization, while encouraging normal diplomatic relations with regular engagement.—
Karishma Vaswani,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2026
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One solution to the penny problem is rounding to the nearest nickel, using a practice called symmetrical rounding.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Because material ejected in the supernova is unlikely to be symmetric, the accretion disk is also unlikely to be symmetric.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Oklahoma Education Association President Cari Elledge equated the plan to mortgaging a teacher’s future for a salary increase today.—
Nuria Martinez-Keel,
Oklahoma Voice,
6 Mar. 2026
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Newsom has equated these actions to the state’s efforts in 2024 to quash the sale of hemp products containing cannabinoids such as THC.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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The striker hesitated and allowed Trevoh Chalobah to tackle.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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That's over twice the value of gold from just one year ago, and now investors who once hesitated to buy gold are weighing whether the opportunity has already passed — or whether the metal still has room to run.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
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To soak up the sins of the early morning dancefloor, kudos must be paid to the 24-hour room service.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Mar. 2026
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His religious order, the Redemptorist Fathers and Brothers, had paid for the burial of scores of the drug-war dead.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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Even now, the Declaration of Sentiments is a lucid and audacious document.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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These are, at their core, deeply moving stories of women made to suffer quietly across multiple generations, thanks to a cultural war that was lost long before the Dobbs decision; the adults who explain this to the camera have lucid political outlooks, just as the movie does.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2026
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The massage also uses traditional shawls and harmonic movements to free the body of stress from head to toe.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Mar. 2026
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The result is an apparent doubling of frequency—a bloom of second-harmonic content that the ear hears a bright octave above the fundamental.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Feb. 2026
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MaiaSpace, a French ArianeGroup subsidiary, has adjusted its timeline, now aiming for an inaugural launch in early 2027.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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None adjusted easily to her height or her husband's for shaving.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Balanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balanced. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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