counteract
Example Sentences
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Stars shine because nuclear fusion in their cores converts hydrogen into helium, creating outward pressure that counteracts gravity.
From Science Daily
And with stocks wobbling the past two weeks, those numbers help counteract Wall Street’s latest myth: that today’s market, dominated by giant tech companies, is a monster that will stomp your index funds to bits.
A Church of Ireland minister has said she hopes churches "feel emboldened to counteract racism whenever they see it".
From BBC
To counteract viewer angst about all the dark topics covered in the news about Vietnam, assassinations and more, television leaned into pure escapism for most of the mid-late Sixties.
Other voices chimed in—from the head of the University of Oregon’s volcanology department, from Stanford University, and others—to counteract Johnston’s drama.
From Literature
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