counteroffensive
Example Sentences
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He added that the U.S. was expecting the counteroffensive would happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
The second, focused on a counteroffensive, has been scrapped.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
There wasn’t much time to launch a counteroffensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
The marines had started a counteroffensive up near Khe Sanh, and moved up there instead of into the Phuoc Ha Valley.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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