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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of counteract.

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Examples

  • The only way the republican manufactured pseudo-grass roots revolt against President Obama can be effectively counteracted is for those of us who supported him and voted for him to stand with him now and fight back with our words AND actions.

    WH set to release text of controversial Obama school speech 2009

  • But surely no one expects readers to be converted to Nazism or sadomasochism through Aue's account of himself, either, so one must conclude that Franklin's and Bukiet's dislike of an "unremitting immersion in Aue's worldview" has been converted into a general critical requirement that bad people as depicted in fiction must be "counteracted" by a "philosophical or artistic" effort to meliorate their evil.

    Point of View in Fiction 2009

  • But surely no one expects readers to be converted to Nazism or sadomasochism through Aue's account of himself, either, so one must conclude that Franklin's and Bukiet's dislike of an "unremitting immersion in Aue's worldview" has been converted into a general critical requirement that bad people as depicted in fiction must be "counteracted" by a "philosophical or artistic" effort to meliorate their evil.

    Translated Texts 2010

  • But surely no one expects readers to be converted to Nazism or sadomasochism through Aue's account of himself, either, so one must conclude that Franklin's and Bukiet's dislike of an "unremitting immersion in Aue's worldview" has been converted into a general critical requirement that bad people as depicted in fiction must be "counteracted" by a "philosophical or artistic" effort to meliorate their evil.

    December 2009 2009

  • But surely no one expects readers to be converted to Nazism or sadomasochism through Aue's account of himself, either, so one must conclude that Franklin's and Bukiet's dislike of an "unremitting immersion in Aue's worldview" has been converted into a general critical requirement that bad people as depicted in fiction must be "counteracted" by a "philosophical or artistic" effort to meliorate their evil.

    Furies 2009

  • The effects of every change in a firm's financial asset structure on the stockholders 'portfolios can be "counteracted" by changes in the stockholders' own portfolios.

    The Prize in Economics 1990 - Press Release 1990

  • However, Buthelezi "counteracted" this with an additional response on the same document, stating: "Instead of the amount of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • So we counteracted the alcohol with caffeine (aka "change"), the opposite substance to alcohol.

    Jamie Frevele: What We Are Experiencing, America, Is a GOP Hangover Jamie Frevele 2010

  • So we counteracted the alcohol with caffeine (aka "change"), the opposite substance to alcohol.

    Jamie Frevele: What We Are Experiencing, America, Is a GOP Hangover Jamie Frevele 2010

  • So we counteracted the alcohol with caffeine (aka "change"), the opposite substance to alcohol.

    Jamie Frevele: What We Are Experiencing, America, Is a GOP Hangover Jamie Frevele 2010

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