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a word or phrase that must be spoken by a person in order to pass a guard
the guard demanded the countersign
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Recent Examples of countersign
Christina Elizabeth Dando, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
Blue dot signs have inspired Republican countersigns.
—Christina Elizabeth Dando, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countersign
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At the building’s peak, five-foot-tall concrete letters spell out a hundred and three words of a speech delivered by Obama in Selma, Alabama, in 2015, on the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when John Lewis and other civil-rights activists were beaten at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The aspiration gap, in other words, is not just a story about young adults falling behind their parents.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
Verb
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Everyone in the theater clammed up, as if embarrassed to have endorsed Max with laughter.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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Some major environmental groups have endorsed him.—
Sophie Austin,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Social engineering is a type of fraud scheme used to trick victims into providing scammers with passwords, PINs and other personal information.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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The organization would set up bettors with an account number and password.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Even before the war, Saudi Arabia had signed a defense agreement with Pakistan, which has since gained more credibility as a force in the region because of its mediating role between Washington and Tehran.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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Industry Monk recalls the room feeling slightly busier than usual, the sign-up list longer than an average night.—
Jaeden Pinder,
Rolling Stone,
27 Apr. 2026
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With the sun in Taurus, and Mercury entering this Earth sign on May 2, conversations are all the more intentional, and our decision-making is no exception.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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Kane, the youngest, was the last to sign on, just a few months before filming started, when casting was looking for someone involved in the city’s fashion scene.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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Last December, Temu owner PDD Holdings—a multinational commerce group domiciled in the Cayman Islands and registered in Ireland that’s better known as Pinduoduo—had two of its global facilities raided by European Union regulators over worries over possible Chinese state subsidies.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
1 May 2026
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High schoolers were given the opportunity to pre-register to vote, while younger students filled out coloring sheets on civil rights history.—
Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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Some have attended nearly six years of court dates in his case and 17 agreed to cosign his bond.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Oliver Scialdone is here to cosign the desktop nostalgia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Countersign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countersign. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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