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Recent Examples of countermove
These countermoves are whipping up a default perfect storm.
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Carla Norrlof, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2022
Instead of digesting this laughable conclusion and making a cunning countermove, Danvers lashes out, accusing Kate and the mine of covering up Annie K.’s murder and the water pollution near Ennis.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
This interplay ensures that the balance of survival never stagnates, as each evolutionary innovation prompts a countermove in the complex chess game of predator-prey relationships.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Put simply, with Shopify expanding its reach, Amazon’s Buy with Prime Assist seems like a smart countermove.
—Chris Walton, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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Carla Norrlof, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2022
Instead of digesting this laughable conclusion and making a cunning countermove, Danvers lashes out, accusing Kate and the mine of covering up Annie K.’s murder and the water pollution near Ennis.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
This interplay ensures that the balance of survival never stagnates, as each evolutionary innovation prompts a countermove in the complex chess game of predator-prey relationships.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Put simply, with Shopify expanding its reach, Amazon’s Buy with Prime Assist seems like a smart countermove.
—Chris Walton, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for countermove
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While flash flooding may extend from northern and central Florida to Maryland, Delaware and southern New Jersey, storms should largely wind down by Sunday evening as the front moves into the Atlantic.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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Hong Kong’s Hang Seng surged 3.7% for one of the biggest moves.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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Beijing responded swiftly on Tuesday to the tariffs President Trump had promised, announcing a fusillade of countermeasures targeting American companies and imports of critical products.—
Ana Swanson,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2025
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On Tuesday, shortly after the 10% tariffs took effect just past midnight on the U.S. East Coast, Beijing announced a raft of countermeasures.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2025
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Various factors such as melting sea ice and shifts in the subtropical jet stream over the mid-latitudes in the U.S. may counteract each other.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2025
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Those tankers, bound for China and Japan among other markets, mark a significant shift for Canada, which has long been stuck exporting its vast flows of oil solely to the U.S.—
Robert Tuttle Bloomberg News (WPNS),
arkansasonline.com,
9 Feb. 2025
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The program has faced consequences of careless actions even before that, said Benjamin Chevat, executive director at Citizens for Extension of the James Zadroga Act.—
Nancy Cutler,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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The court has overseen investigations, ordered arrests and censored many of Mr. Bolsonaro’s supporters on social media, arguing that the anti-democratic actions of his movement required an extraordinary response.—
Jack Nicas,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Those include acts of violence with or without weapons, bragging about weapons or a planned attack, and threats seen on social media.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks criminal and non-criminal acts of hate against Jews, counted 8,873 antisemitic incidents in 2023, a 140% increase from the prior year, and the highest number on record since the ADL began tracking such data in 1979.—
Katie Futterman Las Vegas Review-Journal (TNS),
arkansasonline.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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Rihanna and their children attended proceedings on Thursday.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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During the court proceedings, RZA and Riot were well behaved, barely making any noise.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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Monday's successful flight took the company a big step closer to making that happen.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Many women took this aesthetic a step further, showcasing their natural textures, with their curls and coils either elegantly crowned with cowboy hats or left freely flowing in the winter breeze.—
Stixx Mathews,
Essence,
11 Feb. 2025
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The novel follows Nate Cartwright, a journalist who, in the wake of a scandal of his own doing, leaves Washington, D.C. for his dead parents’ cabin in Roseland, Ore.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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In an era rife with conspiracy theories and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps our imagining?—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Countermove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countermove. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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