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Example sentences for: counteract

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Rockefeller hired one of the first corporate flacks to counteract the blistering hostility generated by the muckraking journalist Ida Minerva Tarbell, who laid out in detail how Standard conspired to help its allies and ruin its competitors.
When administered to counteract sedative effect, the benzodiazepine antagonist flumazinil quickly normalizes alpha wave activity [ 11].
The Irish Independent quoted Irish government sources as saying that the attacks on her had to be seen in the context of Seitz's problems in trying to counteract her influence with the White House.
Their change of expression (or lack thereof) is itself a comment on the meaning of nakedness--many appear more defensive unclothed, as if to counteract any vulnerability--and the effect is almost anti-erotic.
How do we counteract the peer pressure that tells them not to bother in class because it's "acting white"?