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- noun An
action taken in response to a priorreaction .
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Examples
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This counterreaction was spurred by many aspects of the Sixties, but standards of personal sexual morality or immorality were an important part of the story.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Since the 1950s one major shock and two major aftershocks have shaken and cleaved the American religious landscape, successively thrusting a large portion of one generation of Americans in a secular direction, then in reaction thrusting a different group of the population in a conservative religious direction, and finally in counterreaction to that first aftershock, sending yet another generation of Americans in a more secular direction.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The assassination, despite its sorry outcome and the waves of harsh criticism against their country that it stirred, aroused in some Israelis a counterreaction of proud patriotism.
Ronen Bergman: The Price of Vanity Ronen Bergman 2011
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The assassination, despite its sorry outcome and the waves of harsh criticism against their country that it stirred, aroused in some Israelis a counterreaction of proud patriotism.
Ronen Bergman: The Price of Vanity Ronen Bergman 2011
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More protectionist and defensive attitudes in the West will spark a counterreaction in Asia and much of the developing world.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Activists created it as a counterreaction to ‘non-white’.
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More protectionist and defensive attitudes in the West will spark a counterreaction in Asia and much of the developing world.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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During periods of political liberalization, progress toward equal rights proceeded apace, but the process was set back during periods of conservative counterreaction.
Germany: 1750-1945. 2009
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And the solutions the experts come up with almost always entail some degree of perverse counterreaction, some kinds of problems or inefficiencies or whatever.
Contrarianism: Die When You Die When You Die You’re Gonna DIE* | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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Many people, including top Judiciary Democrat John Conyers, believe that will provoke a public counterreaction.
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