How to Use counterterrorism in a Sentence

counterterrorism

noun
  • No staffers have been removed from the counterterrorism group.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • Albanese also said the younger suspect was not on a counterterrorism watch list.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 15 Dec. 2025
  • But its counterterrorism mission mostly overshadowed those forces for the first decade or so.
    — Nick Miroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026
  • And the proof of all of those anxieties being well founded is what is happening now with the counterterrorism.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • She was sentenced to almost six years in prison last December under a broad counterterrorism law.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2021
  • His tenure as the nation's top counterterrorism official lasted less than eight months.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • His tenure as the nation's top counterterrorism official lasted less than eight months.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The federal funds help protect the city from emergencies and set up counterterrorism measures.
    — Liam Hibbert, The Washington Examiner, 2 Aug. 2025
  • This means they may not be covered by the new Biden policy imposing stricter standards on counterterrorism strikes.
    — Joshua Keating, Vox, 1 June 2024
  • Researchers called the terms ill-defined and said they aren’t used in international counterterrorism work.
    — Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 14 May 2026
  • The group has seen a revival in the past four years, after counterterrorism campaigns significantly weakened it around a decade ago.
    — NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Kiefer plays Jack Bauer, a counterterrorism agent who works hard to protect the nation, with each episode centered on a different threat.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Kiefer Sutherland stars as Jack Bauer, who runs a government counterterrorism unit.
    — Barry Garron, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Many of the drones used were MQ-9 Reapers, which are used in counterterrorism operations around the world.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Officials have said the intent was to learn from Israeli counterterrorism experts.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Systems like Maven became essential for this style of counterterrorism.
    — Jon R. Lindsay, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The report has ignited debate within the field of counterterrorism.
    — NPR, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Israel has said that the arrests are part of a counterterrorism operation against Hamas in the West Bank.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But the report itself has ignited a firestorm of debate within the field of counterterrorism and extremism research.
    — NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In office for more than a year, counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka has yet to issue a blueprint to combat threats.
    — Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 21 Apr. 2026
  • At age 13 and 14, he was referred three times to Prevent, a British counterterrorism program.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The hackers said the drones featured facial recognition and license plate screening deployed for counterterrorism.
    — CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • The recent attack has also fueled calls in Washington for a tougher counterterrorism posture.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
  • And the White House on Tuesday framed the operation was an enormous counterterrorism win.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • That’s true, said one former counterterrorism official with direct knowledge of the intelligence involved, but there was more to the story.
    — Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Government surveillance tied to counterterrorism and prejudice from neighbors continued to shape how he was seen.
    — Candace Lukasik, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Al-Zawahiri did not have the charisma of bin Laden, counterterrorism experts say, but was the brains behind Al Qaeda.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The reference to Paris stood out to FBI counterterrorism experts.
    — Mark Morales, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The reference to Paris stood out to FBI counterterrorism experts.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Both were sentenced to death in January under Myanmar’s counterterrorism law during trials that were closed to the public.
    — Richard C. Paddock, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022

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