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
In the latter case they have stairs leading down into a counterscarp gallery, which serves as a base for countermine galleries, and is connected with the detached bastion by a gallery under the ditch.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
The deep mines of sin and of alienation are all undermined and countermined by His love.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
The mine had through treachery of some sort been countermined.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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
But the king, who was not to be easily deceived, had countermined all Wallenstein's designs.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe
"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
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
Parallels and approaches were constructed; mines sunk and countermining done.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
On sentry in the firebay, or the hov'ring 'plane, Mining and countermining yet again.
From Over the Top With the Third Australian Division by Neil McBeath
The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
