Definition of "counterbalanced" [counterbalanced]

• Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance. (verb)
• Having a counterbalance (adjective)

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• "Though it appeared better calculated to exclude the warm rays of the sun, than to keep out the cold; a cheerful fire within counterbalanced the evil; and I was seated opposite to a good natured squaw, and two or three children."
• "It's naturally "counterbalanced" by their one Democrat even more concerned for the center than Rosen or Bai, Noah Feldman on differences among orthodox Jews."
• "The study noted that not ethanol only produces 70 percent of the energy generated by gasoline and added that not all CO2 is "counterbalanced" in the process."