How to Use countermand in a Sentence

countermand

verb
  • Trump could sue to try to get the courts to countermand Biden.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 2022-02-16
  • Bossert countermanded a lower level manager who tried to stop the ball tossing.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 2017-01-23
  • The move is unlikely to amount to much, the product of a procedural mechanism that seems easy to countermand.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 2019-07-17
  • Nike finally attempted to go over Russo’s head and get a more senior judge to countermand her ruling.
    — oregonlive, 2020-11-18
  • Even the defense secretary, who is in the chain of command, has no legal authority to countermand the order.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 2021-01-14
  • The idea that the AI driving system could utterly refuse to open a car door and countermand a human passenger is crazy talk for some.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2021-06-21
  • The second pilot tried to countermand the order, leading to another argument between the pilots.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2021-07-18
  • The Republican witness did not rule out such a verdict -- but cautioned against rushing a process that could countermand the 2016 election.
    — Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 2019-12-05
  • That would countermand more stringent rules, imposed by the two federal agencies in charge of protecting salmon, smelt and other endangered species in the Delta, that have been in place since 2009.
    — Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 2017-07-20
  • Republican support for the lawsuit and its call to throw out millions of votes in four battleground states was rooted in baseless claims of fraud, an extraordinary display of the party’s willingness to countermand the will of voters.
    — Nomaan Merchant and Alanna Durkin Richer, baltimoresun.com, 2020-12-12
  • The announcement, made yesterday by Vice President Pence, countermands a decision by the Navy to retire the carrier early to save money.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2019-05-01
  • The refusal to countermand organizations like the National Rifle Association that roadblock efforts to address common-sense gun laws.
    — John D'anna, azcentral, 2019-08-07
  • But the former president’s fitful bouts of nostalgia had little effect on policy: when his own Department of Defense moved to bar Confederate flags from military property, Trump did not countermand the order.
    — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2021-06-22

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