How to Use counteract in a Sentence

counteract

verb
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  • The drug will counteract the poison.
  • For example, if the car turns right the dots will float across to the left to counteract the motion of the car.
    — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 May 2024
  • The only way to counteract that is to try and find a few hours in the day to make sure to spend a few hours out of AC.
    — Jason Thomas Gordon, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Again, the goal is to balance and counteract the saltiness, not make the gravy sweet.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This is a good thing, as this device helps to counteract the effect of the weight of your breasts pulling your chest and front side forward, Smith says.
    — Women's Health, 17 May 2023
  • This could counteract the savings that the reforms are meant to create.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In the end, these two effects counteract and produce a zero field.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2022
  • And Ukraine is maybe the only state in our part of the world which in all these ten years has been trying to counteract this negative trend.
    — Time, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Once again, the room has a pop of color with green seating counteracting the simple black and white features of the home.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • With one foot back, the upward-pushing force from the floor would counteract the rotation of the other two forces.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The small space doesn’t allow for a retractable roof, but the A’s are hoping to counteract that with the large window facing the strip beyond the outfield.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Older skiers can counteract the effects with two hard and fast rules: Be willing to train and know your limits on the slopes.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Meta will counteract on the grounds that promotion is, at the end of the day, content, predicts Fordham’s Rashbaum.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The decades-old drug can counteract the effects of an opioid overdose in minutes.
    — Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But now that consumers are done building themselves home offices and theaters, the CEO has to counteract a drop in sales.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Any bloating this could cause is then counteracted by the antioxidants in the green tea.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
  • All of that has led the brand to slightly increase prices to counteract scarcity, as well as rising labor and supply costs.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The hope is that a more aggressive Biden like the one Americans saw during the State of the Union address may counteract concerns about his age.
    — TIME, 15 May 2024
  • Hurricanes love that, as drier air can lead to cooling and downdrafts that counteract the updrafts that drive the storm.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • And the way to counteract that is to give a baby oxygen on a flight, but no commercial airline is going to accept that risk.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Housing prices can remain stubbornly high, even as the Fed works to counteract them.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The risk is that a push for women to have children could counteract a drive to improve gender equality.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But there are things states can do to counteract these inequities, Netter Epstein and Goldberg write.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Generating Lift and Thrust Thrust is a simple forward movement through the air to counteract the force of drag.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The campaign would also have to figure out how to counteract attacks against her as a woman of color.
    — Melissa Brown, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
  • Just make sure there aren’t any cold drafts around your windows that could counteract the warming effect of sunlight.
    — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As the spinner turns, the swivel will counteract the rotation and stop twist from traveling up your line.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
  • And there is Stuart, collecting the kinds of stories about kindness that can counteract the stress that comes from reading bad news.
    — Cquinn, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • Being overweight can increase your risk of high blood glucose, but flaxseeds may help counteract this.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Right now, the core is temporarily causing the Earth’s spin to speed up slightly, counteracting the slowing due to climate change.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 July 2024

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