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vb. To find a compromise between two conflicting things.
Usage examples of "strike a balance".
In return, once she had decided that she had to try to strike a balance between her companions and the almost idyllic society in which she found herself, and get them released, Mildred knew that she would need the assistance of Sineta in trying to persuade her father to authorize this release in the face of the strong opposition she expected from Markos.
Her whole life must have been a series of these agonies of indecision, I reflected pityingly, for where there is no inner will strong enough to repel, to strike a balance, there is a continual teetering before any slightest outward compulsion.
Despite its enormous intelligence, it could never strike a balance anywhere.
He had not posed the advantages and the disadvantages and tried to strike a balance.
One must strike a balance between boldness and caution, theatrics and sincerity, all the while maintaining the open-mindedness and creativity necessary to deal with unforeseen situations.
In setting in motion a cycle-completion process, he had taken it for granted that Nature would strike a balance.