How to Use countermove in a Sentence

countermove

noun
Definition of countermovenext
Synonyms for countermovenext
  • The leagues saw a need to make a countermove, and that was what was revealed today.
    — Joe Harrington, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2021
  • But for those out there begging the Dodgers to make a countermove or handing the Padres the division now, stop.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • There were moves and countermoves galore down the homestretch.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
  • Arms controllers see a spiral of moves and countermoves that threatens to raise the risk of miscalculation and war.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • His one countermove is to have the burner phone traced to the Algiers neighborhood, but an attempt to call the blackmailer’s bluff fails when he’s shown footage of his son at the gas station.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Each move and countermove shaves away the time available for leaders to decide how to respond to a possible nuclear strike.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2023
  • In letting the ball sit against Charlotte, with that 29-point lead, Morant may have been thinking on a scale bigger than that particular game, sowing seeds for a future countermove.
    — Robert O'Connell, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Secondly, at a time when most defenses spend most of their time in nickel packages, handing it off into a light box is a logical countermove.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2020
  • For every countermove that an offense presents, pitching presents another counter.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The only suitable countermove, ostensibly, is to raise the retirement age to pare back the years that the average retiree will be collecting benefits.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Until recent months, such a countermove seemed unfathomable, with U.S. tech companies reluctant for their government to go wall-for-wall with Beijing due to risk of retaliation.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • But hitters had their countermove, which can loosely and somewhat inaccurately be described as the launch angle revolution.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023

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