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Yoon's conservative supporters, meanwhile, have held counterprotests, denouncing attempts to impeach the president.
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Bradford Betz, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
Several weeks later, Hefazat, which had been formed just three years earlier, staged counterprotests that mobilized several hundred thousand people.
—Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2017
The Los Angeles campus became a hotbed of protest and counterprotest activity throughout much of the spring semester.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
At a time when reflexive rage is the go-to mode across the ideological spectrum, Despentes has grabbed the mic to offer a kind of counterprotest to the social-media backlash.
—Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024
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Bradford Betz, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
Several weeks later, Hefazat, which had been formed just three years earlier, staged counterprotests that mobilized several hundred thousand people.
—Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2017
The Los Angeles campus became a hotbed of protest and counterprotest activity throughout much of the spring semester.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
At a time when reflexive rage is the go-to mode across the ideological spectrum, Despentes has grabbed the mic to offer a kind of counterprotest to the social-media backlash.
—Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Counterprotest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterprotest. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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