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countermine

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


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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

Called the AQS-24, the technology merges sonar with laser mine scanning and human command and control to sustain high-resolution countermine sensing and identification at speeds as fast as 18-knots.

From Fox News Feb. 28, 2020

Having to come away furtively like this was a terrible countermine beneath her courage.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

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

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

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

But I soon perceived that the ambassador had countermined me.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington

Israel soon discovered, that though rejoiced to welcome the return of the prodigal son—so some called him—his father still remained inflexibly determined against the match, and still inexplicably countermined his wooing.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

The officer at the mining-key knows from the spark that jumps across under his hand that the enemy has countermined and the harbor is clear.

From Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 by Various

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 May, 1788, a Russian Envoy arrived and began countermining Austria.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)

This last revolutionary measure, carried out with such rapidity that there was no possibility of countermining it created much astonishment in Soulanges and in Ville-aux-Fayes.

From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de

Arundel, whilst sentries stationed at various points were charged with the duty of listening for countermining and to act in case of a sudden break-through.

From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley




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