countercharge
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As he helped Alcocer with the countercharge, he said he voiced concerns about the amount of material being loaded into the containment vessel, according to his and Levesque’s interviews with investigators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
The 150-year-old, recently digitized map depicts the Battle of Antietam — not with the usual scenes of charge and countercharge, but as one vast cemetery.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2020
It’s the stuff of the cheating husband whose wife finds a telltale hotel receipt in his suit and who responds to her charge with the outraged countercharge, “You went through my pockets?”
From Time ● Mar. 31, 2014
In this environment of acrimony and charge and countercharge, the anger of Majed al-Muhammad, the retired sergeant major, was of a type fueled by frustration and loss.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2012
It was apparent to him that Breckenridge’s charge, unless checked, would result disastrously to the army; and he broached the subject of a countercharge to an officer of like grade of another brigade.
From Stone's River The Turning-Point of the Civil War by Wilson J. Vance
The challenger barely stepped out of the way when the alpha countercharged.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2019
Scoffing at Mason's figures, Purdy countercharged that Argosy, according to his own newsstand espionage report, had not even been making its circulation guarantee for the past year.
From Time Magazine Archive
With considerable justification, the board countercharged that Richer was disrespectful and defiant, decided to fire him on the spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brierites countercharged that the quarrel was over the principal's treatment of the school janitor, Sergeant York's brother.
From Time Magazine Archive
On an encaustic tile at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, founded by him: The double-headed eagle only, countercharged.
From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Actual controlled detonations were more common in decades past, because without advanced robotic technology, countercharging was the easiest way to render bombs safe.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2013
But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng.
From Time Magazine Archive
