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- verb Present participle of
counteract .
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Examples
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Chris Travers: One important role that school sex ed programs have is in counteracting some of the errors that circulate among teenagers as rumors.
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But there is some good news: When a second test group was cued about their inherent aversion to accents, participants succeeded in counteracting their anti-accent bias with mild accents — though they were not successful with heavy ones.
Week in Ideas 2010
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One important role that school sex ed programs have is in counteracting some of the errors that circulate among teenagers as rumors.
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What Grossman apparently didn't take away from his glimpse into the future (perhaps because he fears his own place as a print-based critic will simply be washed away) is any sense of the role literary criticism might play in counteracting the New Chaos.
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Q7: Which of the following measures do you think would be effective in counteracting illegal offering or sharing of material over the internet?
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At the ER, adoctor gave him a cortisone shot to begin counteracting his extreme allergicreaction.
How to Treat (and Avoid) Poison Ivy and Other Toxic Plants 2006
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Still, it appears that, particularly where education and smoking habits are concerned, a parent’s heading to a church, synagogue, or mosque might be useful in counteracting the negative effects of child poverty.
Can Religion Offset the Effects of Child Poverty? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Still, it appears that, particularly where education and smoking habits are concerned, a parent’s heading to a church, synagogue, or mosque might be useful in counteracting the negative effects of child poverty.
Can Religion Offset the Effects of Child Poverty? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Although the canoe was long -- and therefore unfitted to turn quickly -- the powerful strokes of the two paddles in what may be called counteracting-harmony brought the little craft right round with her stern to the waves.
Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859
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Although the canoe was long -- and therefore unfitted to turn quickly -- the powerful strokes of the two paddles in what may be called counteracting-harmony brought the little craft right round with her stern to the waves.
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