counteraction

Example Sentences

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Earlier this week, North Korea warned of "resolute counteraction" to provocations ahead of joint military drills between South Korea and the US.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

The meeting "discussed practical matters and measures for machinery to prepare various military action proposals that no means and ways of counteraction are available to the enemy," it added.

From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2023

She said North Korea will take “the toughest counteraction to the last” to protect its national security.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2022

As this chronicle shows, eradicating racism in all its forms requires constant vigilance and counteraction.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2021

All that renders the exhibition of the magnet curious or wonderful is that it is an uncommon condition of things, an apparent counteraction of the regular laws of nature.

From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens