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countermine

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


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Navy’s countermine capabilities as it retires traditional minesweepers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

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

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

The defence has the advantage, in the case of fortresses, of being able to establish beforehand a system of countermine galleries in masonry.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

Plainly I read between the lines that our plot had been discovered, that we had been countermined.

From The Iron Heel by Jack London

He has countermined me; blown up my works!

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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

Sedition has, at last, countermined itself, and conspiracy we have seen in effect perishing by its own excesses.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

But while Pitt sapped the approaches to the citadel, Loughborough countermined him.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

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

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 Honoré de Balzac

No explosion took place, however, and after our countermining work was completed, the garrison became reassured and remained in the fort at night as well as in day time.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various

He commenced his dastardly countermining of his partner's advice by complimenting Payson on being a man whose words, manner and appearance proclaimed him to the world a true sport and a regular fellow.

From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train


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