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• n  a weight that balances another weight
• v  constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to

• Today the 700,000-member center has become, with a budget of $30 million, a powerful counterweight to the liberal American Civil Liberties Union.
• Colbert, 41, is the bawdy counterweight to cable-news talking heads who each night, just a few channels away, deliver a fresh supply of material for parody.
• For a Hollywood obsessed with blockbusters, it's both handmaiden and counterweighta broad new distribution channel but one that gives equal billing to small and independent films.

• counterbalance
• counterpoise
• balance
• equalizer
• equaliser
• counterpose

News & Articles

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• Work at Levi’s Stadium resumes two days after death
  Work resumed on the 49ers’ new stadium in Santa Clara Thursday, two days after a construction worker died there. According to Mark Gomez of the San Jose Mercury News, workers gathered in the south end zone for a service to remember 63-year-old Donald White, who died on Tuesday when an elevator counterweight fell on him.…
  June 14, 2013 - NBC Sports: ProFootballTalk
• Worker dies during construction of 49ers' stadium
  An elevator mechanic was killed Tuesday when he was struck by a counterweight while working in a shaft at the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium, state officials said.
  June 12, 2013 - Sports Illustrated
• Mechanic killed at site of new 49ers stadium
  An elevator mechanic was killed Tuesday when he was struck by a counterweight while working in a shaft at the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium, state officials said. Donald White, 63, was found dead shortly ...
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News