Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anything which counteracts, or acts in opposition; an opposing agent.
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Examples
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It's good to have Verity as a sort of counter-agent for Toby.
seanan_mcguire: Current projects, August 2009. seanan_mcguire 2009
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It's good to have Verity as a sort of counter-agent for Toby.
seanan_mcguire: Current projects, April 2009. seanan_mcguire 2009
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It's good to have Verity as a sort of counter-agent for Toby.
seanan_mcguire: Current projects, June 2009. seanan_mcguire 2009
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It's good to have Verity as a sort of counter-agent for Toby.
seanan_mcguire: Current projects, July 2009. seanan_mcguire 2009
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It's good to have Verity as a sort of counter-agent for Toby.
seanan_mcguire: Current projects, May 2009. seanan_mcguire 2009
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They maintain a background temperature which is a major counter-agent to anything that might try to pull the atmosphere away from its near-equilibrium with it.
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It was not a common sound in Washington, but neither was it unusual: it was almost surely one of the city's thousands of anonymous snoopers firing at a counter-agent, a cop, or a shadow.
Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957
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The very excesses into which his one-sided theory betrayed him, acted as a useful counter-agent to the prevailing bad taste of his time.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various
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Smoke is not unwholesome; in many circumstances it is salubrious, as a counter-agent to worse influences.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Smoke is not unwholesome; in many circumstances it is salubrious, as a counter-agent to worse influences.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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