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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

They mine and countermine, until it isn't safe to predict who is immune and who isn't.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

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 Maclaren, Alexander

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 Defoe, Daniel

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

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

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack

For it was clear, was it not, that her mines must be countermined for her own sake and that of her belongings?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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

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 McBeath, Neil




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