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, 21 Feb. 2025
More than 200 flights were canceled out of the airport by 4:15 local time, according to FlightRadar24.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
The data collected by LIGO and Virgo demonstrated gravitational waves do indeed cancel out excess handedness, showing no directional preference.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Audio Eraser is an editing tool to cut out background noise in videos post-capture, canceling out the sound of a crowd's chatter or an ambulance's siren.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2025
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Tim Britton, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
More than 200 flights were canceled out of the airport by 4:15 local time, according to FlightRadar24.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
The data collected by LIGO and Virgo demonstrated gravitational waves do indeed cancel out excess handedness, showing no directional preference.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Audio Eraser is an editing tool to cut out background noise in videos post-capture, canceling out the sound of a crowd's chatter or an ambulance's siren.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Cancel out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cancel%20out. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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