balances

Synonyms

proportionality counterbalance equalizer readjust stability stabilize counterweight stabilizer equilibrate balance wheel equipoise residuum scales egalitarianism

Antonyms

Acts

Phrases with the word

balances of payments account balances balances out bank balances

Examples

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body. Rihanna

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off. Ray Bradbury

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. Roy Moore

My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me. Monica Bellucci

Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes... he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats. Václav Havel

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.”. Winston Churchill