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- noun An
establishment that opposes another establishment.
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Examples
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The media counterestablishment of the right gives them that.
Tea Party Jacobins: The State Of American Politics Today 2010
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This kind of anarchic, counterestablishment spirit was something that resided in National Review and attracted a lot of talented young writers who wouldn't necessarily go on to become conservatives.
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus 2001
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Even though it disappeared as a separate religion, its concepts of conflict between good and evil shaped later thought, especially in Europe and the Middle East, and occasionally provided the foundations for counterestablishment religions.
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Given an entrenched opposition to Erbakan throughout the country's leading institutions, it seems likely that he will only effect a transformation of the country by staying in power for many years and managing slowly to create a counterestablishment that can take over from the existing establishment.
Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009
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Although Netanyahu has important advantages over Erbakan (a much larger base of electoral support, a far less radical program to implement), he also does not seem likely to achieve his goals unless he manages to create a counterestablishment.
Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009
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Driven by a need to engage elite opinion, conservatives tried to build an intellectual counterestablishment with think tanks and magazines.
Free Democracy 2008
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Driven by a need to engage elite opinion, conservatives tried to build an intellectual counterestablishment with think tanks and magazines.
Fors Clavigera James K.A. Smith 2008
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Ya wouldn’t normally a-thunkit, but the New York media establishment (or counterestablishment) whatever, the New York media hegemony (how I love that word), has today played a large part in keeping my most dearest, secretest, sweetest dreams alive, contrary to their traditionally dream-shattering ways.
The New York Media Mafia: keeping my dreams alive « raincoaster 2007
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Ya wouldn’t normally a-thunkit, but the New York media establishment (or counterestablishment) whatever, the New York media hegemony (how I love that word), has today played a large part in keeping my most dearest, secretest, sweetest dreams alive, contrary to their traditionally dream-shattering ways.
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