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The team also incorporated a second metallic layer designed to counteract unwanted electric fields.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

That means some of the incoming chairs of oversight committees have already been preparing for how to counteract the defenses that were thrown up last time.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

Sustained above-average rainfall will be needed throughout the winter to counteract the effects of the hottest summer on record.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

“Oh, it’s OK,” the Dodgers would say, “because we can always slug to counteract it. And we have incredible starting pitching, so we can get away with it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Emma laughed, and replied: “But I had the assistance of all your endeavours to counteract the indulgence of other people. I doubt whether my own sense would have corrected me without it.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

This mysterious form of energy produces an outward pressure that counteracts gravity and prevents complete collapse.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

It tries to remove psychological and practical barriers to individual choice and counteracts beliefs or values that might dissuade people from adopting new foods.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024

Gravity makes dark matter clump together, but dark energy counteracts this effect.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2024

Now, researchers report that a once-promising new drug, an antibody that counteracts a pernicious toxin in the viper’s venom, has failed in animal trials.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 16, 2024

He did this by adding a cosmological constant, an as yet undetected force that counteracts the force of gravity.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Recent rainfall has counteracted the effects of drought on the waterway, through which five percent of global maritime trade passes.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

And one 10-second play from Friday’s Game 2 shows just how the Knicks have counteracted the player known as The Alien—by manipulating space and time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

In 2025, researchers at the University of Louvain and Imperial College London clarified how this harmful chain reaction might be counteracted.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025

The second is when the key holds are removed and the self-reinforcing dynamics are counteracted by, for example, a new bumper harvest or the provision of scaled-up humanitarian assistance.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2024

I guess Joey and I counteracted the brain-loss effect caused by Chas Becker’s brilliance.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

But less well-known is sulphur pollution, which forms vast numbers of tiny particles in the air and reflects sunlight back into space, partly counteracting the warming effect of carbon.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“The forecast is shaped by two counteracting forces,” said Asa Johansson, director of policy studies at the OECD.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

The researchers also observed brain activity patterns that resembled the effects of a good night's sleep, counteracting the typical brain changes associated with sleep deprivation.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025

It has an inclined tourbillon, a feature aimed at improving accuracy by counteracting gravity, which adds to its rarity in the watch world.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024

Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik