countermine
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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
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
After this, twelve small charges of gun-cotton were sunk in various directions, each representing a countermine of 500 pounds.
From In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
We mined the organization of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organization.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
I thought to take her by surprise at that very point, and right there she has countermined.
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
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
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 Henry William Herbert
And many a U.S. diplomat, busily countermining the British, worries more about them than he does about the Russians.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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She would have considerable pleasure in countermining Mr. and Mrs. Tappitt.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
In May, 1788, a Russian Envoy arrived and began countermining Austria.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
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