counteroffensive

Example Sentences

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There wasn’t much time to launch a counteroffensive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Following the army's counteroffensive and recapture of Khartoum, more than 800,000 people have returned to the capital.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

When Iraq’s Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 and Bush Sr. responded with a massive troop mobilization and counteroffensive, Cheney managed it quite competently from the Pentagon.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2025

It’s a proactive counteroffensive, built on showing that democratic alternatives exist and can work both to identify and solve real problems, and to bring people together.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024

The marines had started a counteroffensive up near Khe Sanh, and moved up there instead of into the Phuoc Ha Valley.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers