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
Having to come away furtively like this was a terrible countermine beneath her courage.
From The Real Adventure by Raymond Moreau Crosby
I fear, Mr. Editor, the grand conspiracy is in danger of being countermined and counteracted, by those all-pervading and indefatigable Yankees.
From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Washington Irving
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
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
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
In May, 1788, a Russian Envoy arrived and began countermining Austria.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
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 Neil McBeath
Parallels and approaches were constructed; mines sunk and countermining done.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
