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
Back fell the British before a countercharge they could not withstand, back beyond the rail fence.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism by William Patten
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
"Citizens-for-Johnson" Director John B. Connally countercharged that Kennedy secretly suffers from Addison's disease, an incurable but now controllable deficiency of adrenal secretions.
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
The external walls are here ornamented with patterns countercharged in light and dark stone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
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
