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annul, cancel (out), compensate (for), correct, counterbalance, counterpoise, make up (for), negative, neutralize, offset
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However, researchers from Harvard might have found a dietary supplement that can counteract this problem: resveratrol, an antioxidant found in grape skin, blueberries and perhaps most famously, red wine. — Fox News, "Red wine could help astronauts stay strong on Mars," 25 July 2019 And also looking at astronaut health, another experiment will look at how microgravity impacts healing and tissue regeneration, allowing scientists to develop better ways of counteracting bone density loss in space. — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, "SpaceX plans to launch 5,000 pounds of cargo to ISS tonight. But storms may push it to August," 24 July 2019 Chocolate Chunk Tahini Blondies Active: 25 minutes | Total: 45 minutes Servings: 24 two-inch pieces Tahini gives these blondies a nutty and faintly bitter flavor that counteracts what can otherwise be an overly sweet treat. — Becky Krystal, The Denver Post, "The key to these gooey, chocolaty blondies? Open sesame.," 3 June 2019 Evidence from supernova explosions showed that the expansion is, instead, accelerating — as if there is some extra form of energy that counteracts gravity and increases the velocity of the expansion. — Quanta Magazine, "An Italian Cosmologist Who Wanders in Dante’s Dark Wood," 13 Nov. 2018 Cunningham, who lives in Pasadena with his wife, Wendy, acts as a tireless booster for his adopted home, posting sparkling shots of downtown Baltimore on social media to counteract more derisive depictions of the city. — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, "‘I realized I was done’: Bruce Cunningham steps down after 20 years as Ravens public-address announcer," 20 Aug. 2019 Launching several detectors would mitigate this problem, but Kipping notes that doing so might also counteract the cost savings that make the idea so appealing. — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, "Earth Could Be a Lens for a Revolutionary Space Telescope," 14 Aug. 2019 To counteract the slumping global economy, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has hinted that rate cuts are coming at the conclusion of the Fed's two-day policy-setting meeting Wednesday. — David Goldman, CNN, "Wait, so, why is the Fed cutting rates, exactly?," 30 July 2019 In Paris, older cars are banned from the city to counteract the fact a heat wave aggravates the city’s pollution. — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, "Europe has had five 500-year summers in 15 years. And now this," 28 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'counteract.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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