counteract
Example Sentences
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While cutting the balance sheet would reduce liquidity in the financial system, lower interest rates would counteract the negative effect, he has said.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
Speaking to students at Harvard University, he laid out the textbook case for patience: Energy disruptions tend to be short-lived and monetary policy works too slowly to counteract them in real time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Building on this, the researchers explored whether adding NAC or Se to the diet could counteract those effects.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
None of it did much to counteract the sense that life had become too expensive.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
In other words, just like a vast majority of the crewmen, my job is to run side to side across the deck and back again to counteract the rolling motion of the sea.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing counteract
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Academic Vocabulary, Unit 3
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Part 3 Vocabulary (Unit 3)
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