countermine
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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
The growing modern mine threat is so significant, that the Navy has been fast-tracking a wide range of new countermine attack and defense strategies.
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
But the king, who was not to be easily deceived, had countermined all Wallenstein's designs.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe
They mined and countermined, until the whole area had been honeycombed.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
But while Pitt sapped the approaches to the citadel, Loughborough countermined him.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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
Plainly I read between the lines that our plot had been discovered, that we had been countermined.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
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
The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
The apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the cook and the vintner.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
Parallels and approaches were constructed; mines sunk and countermining done.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
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