How to Use counteract in a Sentence
counteract
verb- The drug will counteract the poison.
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For example, if the car turns right the dots will float across to the left to counteract the motion of the car.
— Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 May 2024 -
The crunchy peanuts and a sprinkle of fleur de sel counteract the sweetness of the caramel, which acts as a binder.
— New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022 -
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 -
Whenever the Dodgers threw a punch, the Braves found a way to counteract it.
— Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021 -
And thus there's not much that can be done to counteract those price pressures.
— Chris Isidore, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022 -
To counteract the wind, the Patriots threw the ball only three times all game.
— Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021 -
To counteract this effect, the ship has to be steered at an angle.
— Francesca Street, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022 -
The strategy aimed in part to counteract the risk of music leaks.
— Neil Shah, WSJ, 16 June 2022 -
All through the night, Pembridge and his team slowly angled into the waves to try and counteract the impact of the wind.
— Francesca Street, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022 -
The best way to counteract mindless scrolling is with mindful scrolling.
— Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021 -
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 -
In the end, these two effects counteract and produce a zero field.
— Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2022 -
And Ukraine is maybe the only state in our part of the world which in all these ten years has been trying to counteract this negative trend.
— Time, 7 Oct. 2022 -
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 -
Many patients were in need of naloxone, used to counteract the effects of opioids.
— Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2021 -
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 -
The bill’s passage means there’s more for taxpayers to know, both to counteract recent wild claims and to prepare for what’s ahead.
— Laura Saunders, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 -
The team also gave the animal a drug to keep it sleeping and another later to counteract the effects of the first.
— Laura Ungar, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022 -
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 -
One of the things that had been shown to counteract childhood trauma and increase the chances of resiliency was if a child had at least one adult who looked out for them.
— Diana Marcumstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022 -
One way to help counteract this is through integrity tests.
— Eric Friedman, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021 -
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 -
As the load approaches the inner walls of the backpack, the dampener will adjust just enough to counteract the weight shift, stopping the load from colliding with the outer shell of the backpack.
— IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2024 -
To counteract the exfoliation, a trio of hyaluronic acid, aqua ceramide, and vitamin nourish and hydrates the skin.
— Sarah Han, Allure, 2 Dec. 2024
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