How to Use countermove in a Sentence

countermove

noun
  • The leagues saw a need to make a countermove, and that was what was revealed today.
    — Joe Harrington, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2021
  • There were moves and countermoves galore down the homestretch.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
  • There were moves and countermoves galore down the homestretch.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • There were moves and countermoves galore down the homestretch.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
  • Or … was her deadpan reaction planned all along and we’re all caught in yet another one of her media countermoves?
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • For every countermove that an offense presents, pitching presents another counter.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Governors of Democratic states, such as California, are plotting countermoves with their states’ maps.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Trading for Suárez, then, would eventually require an undesirable countermove, such as putting Kyle Schwarber back in left field.
    — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
  • 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
  • Instead, Anatomy of a Fall delivers a series of thrusts, parries, and other countermoves that chronicles the ways in which even the best of relationships can start to rot from the inside out.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This interplay ensures that the balance of survival never stagnates, as each evolutionary innovation prompts a countermove in the complex chess game of predator-prey relationships.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Instead of using her platform to argue with her detractors, Reese made a countermove that simultaneously shored up her own brand by amplifying her commitment to societal change, and invalidated the critique.
    — Timeka Tounsel, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Ducks coach Joel Quenneville and Vegas Golden Knights counterpart John Tortorella will no doubt make moves and countermoves as their best-of-seven second-round playoff series continues.
    — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The players announced their moves and countermoves, negotiated, interrupted one another and occasionally shouted over our unflappable controller, Ed McGrady, an experienced game architect.
    — Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • Range Media Partners has sued CAA over the agency’s use of noncompetes, a countermove to an earlier lawsuit accusing the management firm of stealing confidential information and operating as a rival organization.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025

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