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countermine

[kaun-ter-mahyn, kaun-ter-mahyn, kaun-ter-mahyn] / ˈkaʊn tərˌmaɪn, ˌkaʊn tərˈmaɪn, ˈkaʊn tərˌmaɪn /


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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

Called the AQS-24, the technology merges sonar with laser mine scanning and human command and control to sustain high-resolution countermine sensing and identification at speeds as fast as 18-knots.

From Fox News ● Feb. 28, 2020

He was hastening to Court, to countermine his underminers, from Bath, where he had been taking the waters.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

For it was clear, was it not, that her mines must be countermined for her own sake and that of her belongings?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

"Wait here an hour for me," he whispered; "I must see who liberates him, and whether he is really as innocent as he reads, or we have been countermined by the devil's own tutor."

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

Plainly I read between the lines that our plot had been discovered, that we had been countermined.

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 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

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

She would have considerable pleasure in countermining Mr. and Mrs. Tappitt.

From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope

The art of countermining, and of counteracting the danger of mines exploding, was then very imperfectly understood, though that of besieging above ground had been brought to the very highest degree of perfection.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison


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