How to Use counteract in a Sentence

counteract

verb
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  • The drug will counteract the poison.
  • The only way to counteract that is to try and find a few hours in the day to make sure to spend a few hours out of AC.
    — Jason Thomas Gordon, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Again, the goal is to balance and counteract the saltiness, not make the gravy sweet.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This is a good thing, as this device helps to counteract the effect of the weight of your breasts pulling your chest and front side forward, Smith says.
    — Women's Health, 17 May 2023
  • This could counteract the savings that the reforms are meant to create.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Once again, the room has a pop of color with green seating counteracting the simple black and white features of the home.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • With one foot back, the upward-pushing force from the floor would counteract the rotation of the other two forces.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The small space doesn’t allow for a retractable roof, but the A’s are hoping to counteract that with the large window facing the strip beyond the outfield.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Older skiers can counteract the effects with two hard and fast rules: Be willing to train and know your limits on the slopes.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Meta will counteract on the grounds that promotion is, at the end of the day, content, predicts Fordham’s Rashbaum.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The decades-old drug can counteract the effects of an opioid overdose in minutes.
    — Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But now that consumers are done building themselves home offices and theaters, the CEO has to counteract a drop in sales.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Any bloating this could cause is then counteracted by the antioxidants in the green tea.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
  • All of that has led the brand to slightly increase prices to counteract scarcity, as well as rising labor and supply costs.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 Dec. 2022
  • And the way to counteract that is to give a baby oxygen on a flight, but no commercial airline is going to accept that risk.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The risk is that a push for women to have children could counteract a drive to improve gender equality.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But there are things states can do to counteract these inequities, Netter Epstein and Goldberg write.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Generating Lift and Thrust Thrust is a simple forward movement through the air to counteract the force of drag.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Just make sure there aren’t any cold drafts around your windows that could counteract the warming effect of sunlight.
    — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As the spinner turns, the swivel will counteract the rotation and stop twist from traveling up your line.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
  • And there is Stuart, collecting the kinds of stories about kindness that can counteract the stress that comes from reading bad news.
    — Cquinn, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • Being overweight can increase your risk of high blood glucose, but flaxseeds may help counteract this.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • That could help counteract the moderate image Lawler et al. want to project for themselves.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But to what degree are the eruption's cooling sulfur aerosols counteracting any warming, and what is the net effect?
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Wedgwood plates and round accent table help counteract the boxiness and add charm.
    — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The idea is to counteract some of the effects of climate change by finding ways to reflect solar radiation.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The goal, Ganley said, is to counteract the toll these take on their mental, physical and emotional health.
    — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Calcium from the shells had counteracted Maine’s acidic soils to preserve the ancestors’ bones.
    — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The icon took to Instagram to air her grievances about the ever-escalating spam on the app and insists that the Meta-run platform do something to counteract it.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Other Things to Consider To counteract the lack of sunlight caused by the smoke, adding artificial light won’t hurt your plants, Garza says.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023

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