variants
or less commonly antiterrorist
: acting against, opposing, or combating terrorists : anti-terrorism
anti-terrorist operations/tactics
Examples of anti-terrorist in a Sentence
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The training would focus on anti-terrorist operations including hostage rescue, the ministry added.
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David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
The exit from Niger, a centerpiece in Paris’s anti-terrorist activities, is an especially hard blow for France, whose counterinsurgency operations in the Sahel region are likely to weaken.
—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
France’s anti-terrorist prosecutors office hasn’t yet been seized.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 June 2023
The channel’s relocation to Washington was deemed necessary despite the stationing of armed anti-terrorist police outside Iran International’s Chiswick office and the provision of round the clock protection to several of its journalists.
—Time, 7 June 2023
Kneedler, arguing that Twitter should not be found liable under the anti-terrorist law in this case, said that in that scenario, the bank could be sued under the law.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
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David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
The exit from Niger, a centerpiece in Paris’s anti-terrorist activities, is an especially hard blow for France, whose counterinsurgency operations in the Sahel region are likely to weaken.
—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
France’s anti-terrorist prosecutors office hasn’t yet been seized.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 June 2023
The channel’s relocation to Washington was deemed necessary despite the stationing of armed anti-terrorist police outside Iran International’s Chiswick office and the provision of round the clock protection to several of its journalists.
—Time, 7 June 2023
Kneedler, arguing that Twitter should not be found liable under the anti-terrorist law in this case, said that in that scenario, the bank could be sued under the law.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
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