How to Use countermeasure in a Sentence

countermeasure

noun
  • Now the forestry groups have filed their own countermeasures.
    — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2019
  • If no deal is struck, Brussel’s countermeasures are set to kick in next month.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 28 July 2025
  • The bloc twice delayed those countermeasures, which were meant to kick in in April.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 16 July 2025
  • Satellites evolve new ways to exploit helpers and helpers evolve countermeasures to block them.
    — The Conversation, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
  • There is no fair and voter-centered process for putting countermeasures on the ballot.
    — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 27 July 2024
  • The law and the countermeasure have raised questions across one of the state’s largest industries.
    — Suhauna Hussainstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • That may sound like a smart countermeasure to a pernicious tech shortcut.
    — Nathan Agranovsky, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Chalk has been the countermeasure to sweat since the heyday of dirtbaggers.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • There’s a simple countermeasure to these strip-like minefields.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • None of those countermeasures apply here.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The root cause of [Iran’s] countermeasures are obvious to us.
    — Erin Cunningham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • Sometimes, of course, those countermeasures do make public space less public.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Catching early signs of a mood swing can enable people to take countermeasures or seek help before things get bad.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2024
  • There is no antidote and countermeasures against it today.
    — Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There is no antidote and countermeasures against it today.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The countermeasures against cold water, on the other hand, are more obvious.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2020
  • It's also turned Ukraine into one of, if not the, leaders in the field of anti-drone countermeasures.
    — David Szondy may 02, New Atlas, 2 May 2026
  • The ship then listed to port (north) before slowly righting after the crew took countermeasures.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
  • Without the right kind of countermeasures in place, the site cannot tell that a visitor has installed such software in a browser.
    — Chris Baraniuk, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
  • Takaichi’s countermeasures brought timely relief and won over skeptics.
    — Jeff Kingston, Time, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Drone countermeasures need to be relatively cheap to be viable.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Countering Fiber Drones At present there are no good countermeasures against fiber drones.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • But the Chiefs authored two countermeasures that turned the Super Bowl.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Too often, those reactive countermeasures only feed the next leak.
    — Troy Batterberry, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The agency didn’t specify the countermeasures or when they would be enacted.
    — Chao Deng, WSJ, 9 May 2019
  • If stay-at-home orders and other countermeasures keep working, there should be few deaths after July.
    — Sharon Begley, STAT, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The challenge for Beijing is to figure out precisely what such countermeasures will look like.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 July 2018
  • As a countermeasure, empathy training has shown good results throughout the course of a child’s schooling.
    — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The agreement was seen as a countermeasure to Trump’s aggressive trade policies.
    — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Ford is now preparing some countermeasures.
    — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

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