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She has counteracted the worries about her condition with an impressive show of vigor: nearly a dozen speaking engagements over the past month-plus, traveling to Buffalo, Chicago, Little Rock, New York and elsewhere.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2019

Luckily love, even in its sensual stages, has counteracted this parental selfishness and myopia by inducing young folks to marry for health, youth, and beauty, and creating an aversion to old age, disease, and deformity.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

But the narrow policy of man has counteracted the instincts and the bounties of nature.

From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by Hutchinson, John Hely

Within that time there has existed no cause sufficient to diminish them appreciably, nor which has counteracted their effect in any appreciable degree.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

It is, I venture to think, a very superficial criticism which suggests that under his guidance the policy of this country has ignored, still less that it has counteracted and hampered, the concert of Europe.

From New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? by Various