countercharge
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Alcocer worked on creating a countercharge to detonate the fireworks inside the vessel, according to the inspector general’s report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
The 150-year-old, recently digitized map depicts the Battle of Antietam — not with the usual scenes of charge and countercharge, but as one vast cemetery.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2020
It’s the stuff of the cheating husband whose wife finds a telltale hotel receipt in his suit and who responds to her charge with the outraged countercharge, “You went through my pockets?”
From Time ● Mar. 31, 2014
In this environment of acrimony and charge and countercharge, the anger of Majed al-Muhammad, the retired sergeant major, was of a type fueled by frustration and loss.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2012
Charge was met by countercharge and tempers rose high.
From The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Charles E. Hatch
The challenger barely stepped out of the way when the alpha countercharged.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2019
Brierites countercharged that the quarrel was over the principal's treatment of the school janitor, Sergeant York's brother.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bethlehem also issued a denial, countercharged the trustbusters with disinterring "ancient history" and "harassing" the steelmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The jury's foreman immediately denied the accusation, countercharged that the suicide was the result of Goldfarb's fear that his superiors would take revenge on him for cooperating in the grand jury's inquiry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those not in line, being close, countercharged, driving the enemy and establishing a connected line.
From A Historic Sketch Lest We Forget Company E 26th Ohio Infantry by Walden Kelly
Actual controlled detonations were more common in decades past, because without advanced robotic technology, countercharging was the easiest way to render bombs safe.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2013
But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng.
From Time Magazine Archive
