Thesaurus results for COUNTERSTEPS

countersteps

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variants or counter-steps

plural of counterstep

as in steps

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Anyone in Livingston County who believes they've been exposed is asked to capture the bat, report the exposure by filling out a form on the health department's website and call department staff at 517‑552‑6882 for testing guidance and next steps.

— Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI software, has taken aggressive steps to decrease its reliance on Nvidia.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of steps

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Meta and Anthropic also disclosed their own systems took unsanctioned actions during cybersecurity tests, a wake-up call for the AI and cybersecurity industry.

— Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
This allows the system to learn individual movements and combine them into more complex actions.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of actions

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The Gulf states have experimented with ship-to-ship transfers and other means of moving crude around Iranian restrictions.

— Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026
Living with endometriosis means becoming an expert on highly specialized ingredients and constantly cross-checking product labels.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of means

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Cieloween explained that the moves shown by participants vary widely.

— Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Teams can’t do that without outbound moves, and SKC’s roster didn’t have many players with value coming into 2026; the team has signed 17 new players this year.

— Tom Bogert, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of moves

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This includes inventory accuracy, reporting and KPI visibility, carrier performance, order status, labor capacity, fulfillment bottlenecks, returns volume and demand shifts.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026
Even if some of the dialogue was similar, the emotional conversations were very different, and playing with those tonal shifts was a lot of fun.

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of shifts

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Their lives were recorded in the form of hagiographies, stories of the saints, often ornamented with folkloric motifs, focusing on marvelous adventures and miraculous doings.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
Colorado trio Prairiewolf operates in both these realms, creating limpid yet propulsive instrumental music that faces the stars while remaining focused on doings on the ground.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 17 July 2026

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