counteroffensive

Example Sentences

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There wasn’t much time to launch a counteroffensive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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

Valerii Zaluzhnyi, then Milley’s Ukrainian counterpart, led the army that defeated Russian forces attempting to seize Kyiv in the early days of the war and drove them back in Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2025

It’s a proactive counteroffensive, built on showing that democratic alternatives exist and can work both to identify and solve real problems, and to bring people together.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024

But Margo had given me a way of starting a counteroffensive.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green