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- noun Plural form of
counterforce .
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Examples
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Yes, but let's not panic: what is now the Murdoch press always was trash but we still have sober, responsible counterforces like the good old Guardian here.
Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say 2011
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To watch Menichelli quickly seduce her young field mouse and then just as quickly get rid of him is to truly understand the counterforces of attraction and repulsion.
George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012
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To watch Menichelli quickly seduce her young field mouse and then just as quickly get rid of him is to truly understand the counterforces of attraction and repulsion.
George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012
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To watch Menichelli quickly seduce her young field mouse and then just as quickly get rid of him is to truly understand the counterforces of attraction and repulsion.
George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012
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Though Singer accelerates its thriller pace, Valkyrie reveals a lot about the striations and counterforces in German society that led to the Nazis 'takeover and their iron-fisted control of the country.
Brad Balfour: The Strange Case of Claus Von Stauffenberg and Valkyrie 2009
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He's a smart man, we all agree, but he's got a limited time to turn things around against powerful counterforces in Washington that are circling in bloody waters for the first sign of weakness to strike.
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Optimist and Realist As a result, the two positions, while maintaining distinct duties, have come to be seen as necessary counterforces in a company's power structure: one, the eternal optimist pushing ahead at full speed; the other, the realist, urging caution and remaining wary of risk.
Move Over, CEO: The Time Is Right for the Chief Financial Officer to Be a Co-Leader Philip Tulimieri 2009
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The counterforces for them are also mostly mental.
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The counterforces were stronger than we originally expected.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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In such a violent and unpredictable climate and with so many counterforces you have to deliver some result while you still have election momentum, I concluded in my briefing.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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