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counteract

[kaun-ter-akt] / ˌkaʊn tərˈækt /


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AC Milan's win against United, however, may have provided clues as to how teams might counteract Carrick's defensive set-up - notably with the use of a 5-2-3 formation.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Postal Service to counteract its growing financial losses while the agency is “in the midst of the severe financial crisis amid rising operational costs.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

This was an implicit commitment by the Fed to counteract sharp declines in the market by pumping liquidity into the economy through the mass purchase of Treasury bonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

It is designed this way so that we have speed to counteract the gravitational pull of Mars.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

"These cells are probably attempting to clear damage and promote repair, but that process fails, worsens inflammation, and counteracts recovery."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 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

He did this by adding a cosmological constant, an as yet undetected force that counteracts the force of gravity.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But a sharp fall in food inflation counteracted increases elsewhere.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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

In 2025, researchers at the University of Louvain and Imperial College London clarified how this harmful chain reaction might be counteracted.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025

But if they had been alerted to the plan, their anxiety could have counteracted the sedative.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Removing sulphate pollution takes away some of the cooling that had been counteracting greenhouse warming.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

But there are other pathways counteracting that, so eventually you might start to gain some weight back, says Apovian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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

Slowly my starved body responded to food and overcame the lean years of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, counteracting the flesh-sapping anxiety of fear-filled days.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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