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countermine

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


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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

Navy’s countermine capabilities as it retires traditional minesweepers.

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

A great body of miners are summoned to the camp to countermine the works of the enemy.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by George A. Aitken

We mined the organization of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organization.

From The Iron Heel by Jack London

He has countermined me; blown up my works!

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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

Perhaps she fancied she had countermined her opponents, and so felt secure.

From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

Sedition has, at last, countermined itself, and conspiracy we have seen in effect perishing by its own excesses.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

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

He commenced his dastardly countermining of his partner's advice by complimenting Payson on being a man whose words, manner and appearance proclaimed him to the world a true sport and a regular fellow.

From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train

Having imparted this discovery to his friend Hatchway, they came to a resolution of countermining the plan of their enemies.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Then commences a lively contest to determine who can dig the fastest, and make the most rapid progress in this contest of mining and countermining.

From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson




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