countermine
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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
Navy’s countermine capabilities as it retires traditional minesweepers.
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
Mine and countermine, Richard on the north side worked night and day, denying himself rest, food, reasonable care, for a week forgetful of Jehane and her hope.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
They mined and countermined, until the whole area had been honeycombed.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
The morning came, the long desired sun arose, and all his plots were countermined, all his hopes of immediate action paralyzed, if not utterly destroyed.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Herbert, Henry William
But while Pitt sapped the approaches to the citadel, Loughborough countermined him.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
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 Irving, Washington
I thought to take her by surprise at that very point, and right there she has countermined.
From The Cavalier by Cable, George Washington
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
In expectation of HIS fate, I have been countermining with Szekuly, and his foolish old hands have flung up shovelfuls of gold as we went along—bright, shining ducats, which shall go with me to Paris.
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
To fancy that I was instilling all these precepts at the very moment that he was countermining us.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
Now, to intercept these plain unsuspecting men was the object of Murphy, whose well-supplied information had discovered to him this plan of the enemy, which he set about countermining.
From Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Lover, Samuel
