counterplan

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Recent Examples of counterplan Also in the news: The trial between Fox News and a voting machine company begins today and Republicans have yet to release a counterplan to the Biden administration's budget proposal. Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterplan
Noun
  • If the roaches always chose the exact same angle of escape, predators might devise a counterstrategy, Branco points out.
    Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But the government came up with a brutally clever counterstrategy.
    Annia Ciezadlo, Wired, 3 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • But each has slightly different procedures for what customers should do when their flights are canceled.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Some suffer from infected wounds or complications of surgical procedures already performed in El Fasher amid desperate conditions with virtually no access to medical supplies and drugs.
    Guy Davies, ABC News, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The proposal, made on social media, lacks specific details on timing or distribution.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The proposal comes as the median age of the typical homebuyer in America has increased dramatically over the years.
    Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Hadsel follows similar techniques to teach Splash in his home swimming pool.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Lin and her fellow researchers create adaptability in the garments by using velcro or metal snaps in place of standard stitching techniques; that in mind, a designer can use those snaps to detach or reattach pieces of the garment depending on the need.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Lowell’s motion does not contest the security protocols required for handling classified evidence but asks for a facility that would maintain equivalent protections closer to Bolton’s residence.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In the twenty-first century, the Jesuit moralist’s identification protocol is a paradoxical exercise in normalization.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The strategy is an unconventional tactic, given that Mamdani represents just one city.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Anti-Trump activists are deploying an array of tactics to fight back against the policies of the President and his Administration — protests, marches, events, advocacy campaigns, social media videos.
    Time, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The problem is that the objective optimized by the algorithm is good for the people who control the means of prediction…but not good for the rest of society.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Then Vice President Cheney condemned those behind the torture scandal, while at the same time defending water-boarding as a useful means of extracting vital intelligence (many intelligence experts say water-boarding is torture, and its victims will say anything to avoid further abuse).
    Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Like most fiction, it’s made up of experiences, imagination, ideas, memories, emotions, speculation, knowledge and research.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Original sketches, color swatches and archival images tracing the history of yoga wear — which went from loose to form-fitting — along with rolls of Align fabric offered a visual display of how Align evolved from an idea into a global franchise over a decade.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2025

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“Counterplan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterplan. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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