counterstroke

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The fighting further delayed Bragg’s planned counterstroke and gave additional time to strengthen the Union center.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2022

To the contrary, a cyclic universe, mechanistically doomed forever to repeat itself in entropic stroke and counterstroke is disturbing in its implications of the worth of human existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had started his counterstroke a year ago, after Labor Day, campaigned until January, resumed the battle again last August.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a devastating counterstroke, the defense attorney proves that the doctor could not have seen the clock�it had been removed for repairs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jack could form no idea of what Elbel's plan was; but it seemed to him that in any case the time had come to meet it with a counterstroke.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert