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- noun A
campaign that opposes another campaign.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some 1,700 families living in Mohabatabad, a poor area of 20,000 people on the outskirts of Mardan, a town in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, have refused vaccinations after local Islamic seminaries launched a countercampaign to discourage vaccinations, health workers say.
Move to Get Bin Laden Hurt Polio Push Owais Tohid 2011
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After her marriage, her husband, Anthony Cipollone, ran a quiet countercampaign, leaving her newspaper clippings that warned against the many hazards of smoking.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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After her marriage, her husband, Anthony Cipollone, ran a quiet countercampaign, leaving her newspaper clippings that warned against the many hazards of smoking.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The industry tried to mount an aggressive countercampaign.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The industry tried to mount an aggressive countercampaign.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Indeed, how could the liberals struggle for democracy and obtain large concessions from the authoritarians when the “other opposition,” the Muslim Brotherhood, was waging a massive countercampaign to impose the hijab, separation of the sexes, and discrimination against the Copts?
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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The industry tried to mount an aggressive countercampaign.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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After her marriage, her husband, Anthony Cipollone, ran a quiet countercampaign, leaving her newspaper clippings that warned against the many hazards of smoking.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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A media countercampaign drove home the reality — only one case of mad cow has ever been reported in the U.S. — and the public listened.
Back After Bad Beef 2008
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Though Jones poured $11 million into that effort, the industry responded with a $24 million countercampaign that succeeded in stifling the measure.
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