as in offsetting
to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective
this medication will counteract the symptoms but it won't kill the infection
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Recent Examples of counteracting
Michelle Stansbury, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
As for price changes to come from the MAHA shift, Hanrahan said counteracting forces will most likely keep food products’ sticker price steady.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
And now California is moving forward with its own effort to rewrite its congressional lines in the hopes of counteracting the Texas GOP.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 16 Aug. 2025
The state expanded its film and TV incentive from $330 million annually to $750 million in June in hopes of counteracting an industrywide downturn.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
From open offices to home workstations, employees across industries invested in sit-stand setups with the hope of counteracting sedentary lifestyles.
—Michelle Stansbury, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
As for price changes to come from the MAHA shift, Hanrahan said counteracting forces will most likely keep food products’ sticker price steady.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
And now California is moving forward with its own effort to rewrite its congressional lines in the hopes of counteracting the Texas GOP.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 16 Aug. 2025
The state expanded its film and TV incentive from $330 million annually to $750 million in June in hopes of counteracting an industrywide downturn.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counteracting
Verb
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Conversely, green shoots can be seen from new entrants (those searching for a job for the first time); their numbers decreased by 199,000 last month—largely offsetting a drop the month prior.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Although the survey didn’t determine the number of employees added versus the drop in hiring, New York Fed economists said the two trends are roughly offsetting each other.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But stopping him in transition and neutralizing his defensive impact is a tall task.—
Gavin Groe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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The company claimed that the media giants forced it to carry their non-sports networks, bloating its bundle and forcing it to raise prices, effectively neutralizing it as a competitor and clearing a path for Venu.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The record is probably different than that, but for the second time in the past three years, TCU fell into the most interesting game of college football’s Week 1 schedule because of the opposing head coach.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Sep. 2025
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Each side got to the opposing quarterback for four sacks.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 Aug. 2025
Verb
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A little over the top, maybe, but full marks for acknowledging a mistake and correcting it quickly.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Their innovation was something called backpropagation, or backprop for short, which was a method for correcting the outputs of the middle, hidden layer of neurons during each training pass so that the network as a whole could learn efficiently.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Research on beta blockers shows conflicting results Two major studies disagreed over the impacts of beta blockers for heart attack patients.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The two survivors’ accounts don’t match up, suggesting a longer version would unfold like Kurosawa’s Roshomon, from multiple, conflicting points of view.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jacintha, a horseback rider, was familiar with ketamine as a horse tranquilizer but had never heard of it as a last-stop mental health treatment for treatment-resistant patients like Lucy, who was diagnosed with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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According to MacRumors, Apple is also working on a new anti-reflective, scratch-resistant coating for the 17 Pro models.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Men’s singles champion Jannik Sinner of Italy and women’s singles champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus return to defend their titles, along with American tennis stars Coco Gauff, Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe, Taylor Fritz, Madison Keys and more competing.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
25 Aug. 2025
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Leaders often underestimate how competing directives erode productivity, burn out top performers, and leave high-value projects under-resourced.—
Brent Gleeson,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Any contrary assertion is provably false.—
Mikai Bruce,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Each makes its contrary unreal, even absurd.—
Roy Scranton
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Counteracting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counteracting. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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