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In writing history, there must be intense rigor — evidence is important and if you have evidence that should counteract any bias or hypothesis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

“Those micro doses of movement throughout the day can counteract the effects.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

Over the first two games of the NBA Finals, the Knicks have managed to counteract Victor Wembanyama, the league’s best defender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

“Therefore, a drop in U.S. equity prices is needed to unleash disinflationary forces in the broader economy and counteract the inflationary impulse from higher oil and food prices,” Budaghyan said.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

Sensing the problem, the ascent software angled the ship into the wind to counteract it.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Stars shine because nuclear fusion in their cores converts hydrogen into helium, creating outward pressure that counteracts gravity.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2026

Gravity makes dark matter clump together, but dark energy counteracts this effect.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2024

Now, researchers report that a once-promising new drug, an antibody that counteracts a pernicious toxin in the viper’s venom, has failed in animal trials.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 16, 2024

"I do believe that we can win," he counteracts, "and I won't stop fighting until we do."

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024

This brief overview of precolonial North America counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter and vast unused and uncharted lands.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Einstein selected a value that counteracted the gravitational pull of matter, allowing the universe to remain stable.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

And one 10-second play from Friday’s Game 2 shows just how the Knicks have counteracted the player known as The Alien—by manipulating space and time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Drones can also be counteracted with “kinetic” systems, which can shoot down drones.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

Taylor's worries are counteracted by career-high paydays for the female fighters on an event being broadcast on Netflix in the streaming giant's first venture into live boxing.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

The Spaniards counteracted this threat by inventing a pretext to seize the tlatoani in his own palace, making him first their captive and then their puppet.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

But less well-known is sulphur pollution, which forms vast numbers of tiny particles in the air and reflects sunlight back into space, partly counteracting the warming effect of carbon.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The franc’s strength over the past several months is likely exerting downward price pressure on some goods imports, counteracting the effects of higher energy prices, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

This time we just felt that the way of counteracting the upheaval and negativity that exists currently in our country was to look at it from a different perspective: with love, compassion, faith and education.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

It has an inclined tourbillon, a feature aimed at improving accuracy by counteracting gravity, which adds to its rarity in the watch world.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024

Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik