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The phrase "actually be counterproductive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or strategies that may have unintended negative effects, contrary to the intended positive outcomes.
Example: "While the new policy was designed to improve efficiency, it may actually be counterproductive in the long run."
Alternatives: "prove to be detrimental" or "end up being ineffective".
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It may actually be counterproductive.
And for advocates, the broader definitions may actually be counterproductive.
Supervising your teen's driving when you're feeling frustrated with each other can actually be counterproductive.
And, if you want to look ahead to the draft in June, they can actually be counterproductive.
Indeed, some analysts think that QE3 would be seen as desperate and so could actually be counterproductive.
But unless it's mitigated with zones of privacy — areas where workers can receive developmental coaching, as the truck drivers do, without getting dinged for mistakes that generate learning — it may actually be counterproductive.
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There's some evidence from some of my work, and more directly from the work of others, that it's actually been counterproductive.
I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways.
Potentially, the sum of such well-intentioned efforts might have actually been counterproductive, resulting in information overload, thus reducing the understandability of the information provided and increasing the uncertainty and confusion of informal caregivers.
AI is no substitute for the human intelligence that deploys it, and the wrong mindset about it keeps many businesses from exploiting it fully, while causing others actually to be counterproductive with it.
"The Commission makes no effort at all to reflect on whether the content being deleted is actually illegal, nor if the impact is counterproductive.
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