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counterplans

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plural of counterplan

as in procedures

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Staff need procedures for accessing essential information, recording activity, receiving updates and reconciling records afterward.

— Aliasgar Dohadwala, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Policymakers have also moved to address associated risks, with a dozen states now requiring companion chatbot operators to disclose to users that their tools are not human, and to institute crisis referral procedures.

— Ned Cooper, STAT, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of procedures

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Animal health researchers are using related techniques to inoculate poultry against bird flu and cattle against foot-and-mouth disease.

— Robert Kelly, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
British employees traveled to Rheinmetall’s German production site in Unterlüß to learn specialist manufacturing techniques.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of techniques

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But considering the age of the position-player core, the scrutiny owner Mark Walter is under, and MLB owners’ insistence on a salary cap in their early collective bargaining agreement proposals, was the Dodgers’ dynasty over?

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Lobbying forms don’t say whether companies are arguing for or against the proposals discussed in meetings.

— Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of proposals

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With Bosomworth and other practitioners pointing to estrogen’s role, expect fitness apps, wearables and recovery brands to roll out protocols that adjust temperature, duration and timing by menstrual-cycle phase.

— Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
OpenAI says both incidents were helpful in strengthening its security protocols, including better surfacing attempts by agents to disable misalignment monitoring during its own review process.

— James Peckham, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of protocols

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Our research and engineering remain world-class, but our record of getting ideas to market and improving how products are made has been less stellar.

— Rick Lazio, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
As the woman in the shop explained to them, and the editors dutifully left in the episode to exonerate them, part of the aesthetic is bridging international ideas of cuteness (or kawaii in Japanese).

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of ideas

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Analysts attributed elevated gas prices to ongoing fighting in the Middle East, which has damaged oil infrastructure and forced firms to take up costly means of transporting crude.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Only Washington, North Carolina and Oregon tracked rejection rates with enough detail to distinguish ballots received in the mail from those received by some other means, like a ballot drop box.

— Ken B. Morales, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of means

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The costs of corruption, a war of choice, and other policies that keep driving up prices, threaten the economic well-being of most Americans.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Vucic was known for his policies of balancing between the two, which was partly the reason why Serbia's EU bid stalled when Vucic refused to join the EU sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026

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