counteroffensive
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He added that the U.S. was expecting the counteroffensive would happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
He later planned a counteroffensive that regained a broad expanse of territory in the east.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Following the army's counteroffensive and recapture of Khartoum, more than 800,000 people have returned to the capital.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
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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