cancel out
phrasal verb
canceled out or cancelled out; canceling out or cancelling out; cancels out
: to reduce the effect of (something) : to be equal to (something) in force or importance but have an opposite effect
The costs cancel out the benefits.
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Interested suitors will have to decide how much those two great April starts canceled out what had been a multi-year deadline in which Bieber’s strikeout rate plummeted from 41 percent in 2020 to 20 percent in 2023.
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Tim Britton, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
The deal always had to be ratified by the club's members known as socios in an Extraordinary Assembly called for December 21 but was done so by 419 votes in favour which canceled out 27 against.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
In the other direction, however, is an amusement park, which might simply cancel out the yacht club access, leaving me to look elsewhere for my big hotel purchase.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
And while an infusion of vitamin E locks in moisture and repairs chapped lips, the addition of ethically sourced, light-reflecting blue mica gives lips an ultra-subtle blue shine, which cancels out yellow in teeth, to instantly enhance the appearance of a whiter smile.
—Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 5 Dec. 2024
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Tim Britton, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
The deal always had to be ratified by the club's members known as socios in an Extraordinary Assembly called for December 21 but was done so by 419 votes in favour which canceled out 27 against.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
In the other direction, however, is an amusement park, which might simply cancel out the yacht club access, leaving me to look elsewhere for my big hotel purchase.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
And while an infusion of vitamin E locks in moisture and repairs chapped lips, the addition of ethically sourced, light-reflecting blue mica gives lips an ultra-subtle blue shine, which cancels out yellow in teeth, to instantly enhance the appearance of a whiter smile.
—Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Cancel out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cancel%20out. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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