Countervail used in a sentence

Countervail in a sentence as a verb

That it hasn't yet copied all of Little Snitch's features after 17 days of existence doesn't countervail that.

There's no mechanism known thus far that would countervail it, so it is something that should be taken seriously.

The intention behind penalizing such stories, as I tried to explain above, is not to suppress them but to countervail.

From the profile, it seems the author deliberately sees the world through pink glasses in order to countervail what he perceives as pessimists.

All try to optimize HN for the core value of the site—intellectual curiosity—and all are mechanisms to countervail the upvoting system in some way. Why?

Eventually the roulette ball comes to rest, particularly if the laws that countervail market power aren't enforced.

So, your simplification is tempting, but I think it goes back to creating that vacuum I mentioned, ignoring all of the many market variables that countervail the assumption that $1 in increased "cost" equals $1 in increased price.