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countermine

[koun-ter-mahyn, koun-ter-mahyn, koun-ter-mahyn] / ˈkaʊn tərˌmaɪn, ˌkaʊn tərˈmaɪn, ˈkaʊn tərˌmaɪn /


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Navy’s countermine capabilities as it retires traditional minesweepers.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

A U.S. defense official said the military was using a combination of manned and unmanned capabilities in the countermine operation, but declined to comment on operational specifics.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

Extremely few flag officers ever served as countermine officers.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

The growing modern mine threat is so significant, that the Navy has been fast-tracking a wide range of new countermine attack and defense strategies.

From Fox News Feb. 28, 2020

Now, here was a nice plot to face, and countermine!

From The Castaways by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

I thought to take her by surprise at that very point, and right there she has countermined.

From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

I fear, Mr. Editor, the grand conspiracy is in danger of being countermined and counteracted, by those all-pervading and indefatigable Yankees.

From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

"Wait here an hour for me," he whispered; "I must see who liberates him, and whether he is really as innocent as he reads, or we have been countermined by the devil's own tutor."

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

I seemed to myself perpetually upon the brink of being countermined, and perpetually roused to guard my designs.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin

They mined and countermined, until the whole area had been honeycombed.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett

And many a U.S. diplomat, busily countermining the British, worries more about them than he does about the Russians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whilst they played wits against me—against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born—I was countermining them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

He commenced his dastardly countermining of his partner's advice by complimenting Payson on being a man whose words, manner and appearance proclaimed him to the world a true sport and a regular fellow.

From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train

Parallels and approaches were constructed; mines sunk and countermining done.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris

Having imparted this discovery to his friend Hatchway, they came to a resolution of countermining the plan of their enemies.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett




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