counteract
Example Sentences
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The company said it is seeing strong growth in emerging markets, including Mexico, Brazil and Turkey, helping to counteract challenges in developed markets.
Those sources of uncertainty could counteract positive signs the economy was previously showing and have made projecting the rest of the fiscal year far more difficult, the company said.
One recent study has already demonstrated that exercise can help counteract aging linked to cancer.
From Science Daily
The appeal its stance does have for some white working class voters in the constituency was insufficient to counteract that disadvantage.
From BBC
Congress intended this tariff clause as an emergency tool to counteract a payments “disequilibrium” caused by strains on currency reserve holdings.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
