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counteract

[koun-ter-akt] / ˌkaʊn tərˈækt /


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"On the other hand, we have not yet been able to fully counteract the impact of major shifts in the business environment, such as US tariffs and developments in the Middle East."

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

The question is, how does A.I.-based research either reinforce or counteract the biases in information-gathering processes that journalists already use?

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

The NBA has worked to counteract the incentives to tank, including by smoothing the odds of that lottery to narrow the odds between the merely bad teams and the abjectly awful ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 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

More strongly than my fondness for Pecola, I felt a need for someone to want the black baby to live—just to counteract the universal love of white baby dolls, Shirley Temples, and Maureen Peals.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison




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