as in to 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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The defending league champion Blue Jays have added Dylan Cease, Tyler Rogers and Cody Ponce to their pitching staff while signing Kazuma Okamoto to help offset the loss of Bo Bichette in free agency.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026 -
Glenview Trust, FactSet, Bloomberg Earnings Insights By Sector Positive earnings revisions within the materials, consumer discretionary, and financial sectors were offset by downward revisions in the health care, utilities, and energy sectors.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Without correcting for these relativistic effects, navigation errors would quickly accumulate, rendering GPS unreliable.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Players will now have the ability to correct mistakes by rewinding, as well as the option to save their progress.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Israel Defense Forces conducted approximately 80 brigade-level counterterrorism operations over the past year in the West Bank — known to Israelis as Judea and Samaria — neutralizing hundreds of terrorists and seizing more than 1,300 weapons, according to data released by the military.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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For instance, in soils that have more than 20% organic matter, like those found in parts of Florida and other agricultural regions, the tests’ acids may be partially neutralized by other compounds in the soil.—
Dinesh Phuyal,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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