How to Use counteract in a Sentence

counteract

verb

• The drug will counteract the poison.
• And thus there's not much that can be done to counteract those price pressures.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• Still, water officials say that much more rain and snow is needed over the next few months to counteract two years of very dry weather and relieve the drought.
  — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2022
• As the title suggests, this show aims to counteract many of the harsh, self-critical messages that people absorb about their bodies.
  — New York Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• The positive, remarkable stories counteract the so many dreadful stories of bad behavior that are in the news.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• Righteous anger is useful in demonstrations, as a form of pressure to counteract that from lobbying interests.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2022
• But Questlove had to counteract a lifetime of physical reflexes, to retrain his body to do things and feel time differently.
  — Dan Charnas, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2022
• Contacts counteract the differences between his eyes, which becomes more profound as Rafferty explains life without them.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The decades-old drug can counteract the effects of an opioid overdose in minutes.
  — Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
• The agency urges those who utilize public transit to exercise additional caution as others identify methods to counteract plans already made.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
• The device, for which the watch is named, is an 18th century invention meant to improve accuracy by counteracting the effects of gravity on a watch’s mechanism.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024