counteroffensive
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Conflict in the Arabian peninsula is escalating after Saudi-backed forces launched a counteroffensive to retake territory along the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
He added that the U.S. was expecting the counteroffensive would happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
The EU pursues its trade counteroffensive with some economic wind at its back.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
When Iraq’s Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 and Bush Sr. responded with a massive troop mobilization and counteroffensive, Cheney managed it quite competently from the Pentagon.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2025
But Margo had given me a way of starting a counteroffensive.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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