countercharge
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Alcocer worked on creating a countercharge to detonate the fireworks inside the vessel, according to the inspector general’s report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
The 150-year-old, recently digitized map depicts the Battle of Antietam — not with the usual scenes of charge and countercharge, but as one vast cemetery.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2020
It’s the stuff of the cheating husband whose wife finds a telltale hotel receipt in his suit and who responds to her charge with the outraged countercharge, “You went through my pockets?”
From Time ● Mar. 31, 2014
In this environment of acrimony and charge and countercharge, the anger of Majed al-Muhammad, the retired sergeant major, was of a type fueled by frustration and loss.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2012
American fishermen chafed at exclusion from waters they had come to consider almost their own, and there were many cases of seizure and of angry charge and countercharge.
From The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
The challenger barely stepped out of the way when the alpha countercharged.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2019
Foretich, who vehemently denied Morgan's allegations and countercharged that she was mentally ill, offered a $50,000 reward for information on Hilary's whereabouts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scoffing at Mason's figures, Purdy countercharged that Argosy, according to his own newsstand espionage report, had not even been making its circulation guarantee for the past year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brierites countercharged that the quarrel was over the principal's treatment of the school janitor, Sergeant York's brother.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those not in line, being close, countercharged, driving the enemy and establishing a connected line.
From A Historic Sketch Lest We Forget Company E 26th Ohio Infantry by Kelly, Walden
Actual controlled detonations were more common in decades past, because without advanced robotic technology, countercharging was the easiest way to render bombs safe.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2013
But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng.
From Time Magazine Archive
