counteract
Example Sentences
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One recent study has already demonstrated that exercise can help counteract aging linked to cancer.
From Science Daily
The appeal its stance does have for some white working class voters in the constituency was insufficient to counteract that disadvantage.
From BBC
Congress intended this tariff clause as an emergency tool to counteract a payments “disequilibrium” caused by strains on currency reserve holdings.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
