counteract - use in sentences

Object

  • negativity: Appreciative Inquiry is a philosophy and a bundle of practices that is designed to counteract such negativity.
  • tendency: They can also be used with the thick edge at the front of the seat, to help counteract a tendency to slide forward.
  • effect: Drink loads, need fluids to counteract the effects of altitude.
  • disadvantage: The lean steer seems to be effective in making front wheel drive work well also in counteracting the stability disadvantages of a delta.
  • shake: Features of note include the company's proprietary CCD Anti Shake system where the CCD moves to counteract camera shake.
  • exclusion: Social Exclusion Unit Details of Government initiatives to counteract social exclusion.

Subject

  • force: A car crossing a bridge exerts external dynamic forces on the bridge which must be counteracted by internal forces within the bridge.
  • survival: However, this is counteracted by the reduced survival of aneuploid cells and the body will tend to get rid of them.
  • growth: In the early 1990's the recession in the US was counteracted by growth in Japan, Europe and emerging markets.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

  • due: At the surface of the Roche lobe, counteracting gravitational forces due to both stars effectively cancel each other out.

Modifying Another Word

  • effectively: It seems very unlikely that a ' star wars ' defense program could be used to effectively counteract an asteroid.
  • thus: Heavy doses of copper can be introduced into the seat to improve heat transfer and thus counteract the tendency to overheat.
  • easily: This argument, however, can be easily counteracted.
  • also: Echinacea may also counteract some aspects of chemotherapy, where the chemotherapy is being given to suppress the function of the immune system.
  • not: This could well be number one, so long as one version does not counteract the other.
  • partly: More recently, it has been appreciated that Hydroxychloroquine has many other beneficial effects that can partly counteract the side-effects of steroids.

Used with why or when

  • what: Some members make them- selves available for local media appearances to counteract what Klass calls " the popular view of UFOs as extraterrestrial spaceships.

Present participle complement

  • bully: Suicide and self-harm prevention arrangements had continued to develop satisfactorily but those to counteract bullying were less robust.

Preposition: by

  • force: A car crossing a bridge exerts external dynamic forces on the bridge which must be counteracted by internal forces within the bridge.
  • survival: However, this is counteracted by the reduced survival of aneuploid cells and the body will tend to get rid of them.

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