counterrevolution

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as in counterinsurgency

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Recent Examples of counterrevolution As part of this textualist counterrevolution, the Court has invented new rules and discarded old ones to second-guess legislative choices. — Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026 The revolution—and counterrevolutions across Europe—would speed the formation of nation-states in the nineteenth century. — Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 This counterrevolution also overturned social balances established at the founding. — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024 Reynolds also led a counterrevolution against traditional civil rights enforcement and was rewarded when Reagan in 1985 sought to promote him to associate attorney general, the Justice Department’s third-ranking position. — Ronald Brownstein, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for counterrevolution
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counterinsurgency
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  • The United States almost certainly would have wound up fighting the sort of casualty-heavy counterinsurgency campaign that has led it to costly defeats elsewhere.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • The Peruvian counterinsurgency succeeded due to a strategy that deliberately cut ties between the guerrillas and the drug traffickers.
    — Michelle D. Paranzino, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
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