counteraction

Example Sentences

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Earlier this week, North Korea warned of "resolute counteraction" to provocations ahead of joint military drills between South Korea and the US.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

The meeting "discussed practical matters and measures for machinery to prepare various military action proposals that no means and ways of counteraction are available to the enemy," it added.

From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2023

She said North Korea will take “the toughest counteraction to the last” to protect its national security.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2022

It defended its actions as “just counteraction measures” against the exercises.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022

But here reality, no fantastic story, showed you men who, through the counteraction of attractive forces, could tell no difference between light substances and heavy substances, and who absolutely had no weight whatever themselves!

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward