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counteracting

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verb

present participle of counteract

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for counteracting
Verb
  • This confirmed that neutralizing the protein could help turn off the overactive immune response.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Our editors love this gel-cream moisturizer's cooling, skin-soothing texture and redness-neutralizing tint.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Allure, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Maria Shriver Calls Chris Pratt 'a Great Member of Our Family' for His 'Spiritual and Kind' Nature Amazon Prime Video's The Terminal List follows a Navy SEAL who returns home with conflicting memories after his platoon is ambushed on a covert mission.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 7 June 2025
  • That’s because Coughlan has to reconcile two conflicting aspects of her character.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 6 June 2025
Verb
  • Through training and patience, owners can work on correcting the inappropriate barking behavior.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The French formulation contains a blend of oils that nourish the hair while correcting its color.
    Jenny Berg, Allure, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Punch likened the grant terminations to only partially treating tuberculosis, which allows the highly infectious disease to become resistant to medicine.
    Bram Sable-Smith, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
  • North Korea’s political old guard may be resistant to change, but Kim need point no further than China and Vietnam to show how ruling parties in communist states can retain power while encouraging rapid economic growth.
    John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Sports are not just about competing but also relations.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Leaders from both nations face mounting public pressure to show strength and seek revenge, and the heated rhetoric and competing claims could be a response to that pressure.
    Sheikh Saaliq, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • As is frequently the case in America these days, those looking for ways to blame an act of terror on distinctly right-wing or leftist extremism will find that the truth lies in a baffling and murky middle where contrary strains of radicalism converge.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
  • This is a contrary indicator as these levels are often seen at important market bottoms.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
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“Counteracting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counteracting. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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