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
Prince Waldemar was at the head of the countermine, and he was one of the cleverest, most astute men "on 'change."
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
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
Alas! the influence of one girl upon the actions of another girl may be as "immense" as you please, but wait until it is countermined by some newly appeared, attractive young scoundrel of a man!
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Mrs. Oliver Onions
I seemed to myself perpetually upon the brink of being countermined, and perpetually roused to guard my designs.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
But I soon perceived that the ambassador had countermined me.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds
Perhaps she fancied she had countermined her opponents, and so felt secure.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
To fancy that I was instilling all these precepts at the very moment that he was countermining us.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
Having imparted this discovery to his friend Hatchway, they came to a resolution of countermining the plan of their enemies.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett
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