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- noun Plural form of
counterspy .
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Examples
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Whatever the merits of the charges against him, handing out satellite phones without a license was bound to draw the attention of Cuba's counterspies.
Our Man in Havana Jeff Stein 2011
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Today, with any luck, the CIA has Iranian counterspies turning Tehran's labs upside down.
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Amiri was a double agent all along, the armchair counterspies jibed.
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In bed, she searched for her place in the book she was reading and wandered off into a world of spies and counterspies, intrigue and violence.
Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009
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Finally she went to bed and read for an hour, but neither the world of spies and counterspies nor a singularly dull account of an archaeological dig in Iran succeeded in lulling her to sleep, and she eventually gave up and simply turned out the light.
Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009
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Comic: Jet Dream & her stunt girl counterspies oneshot comic from Goldkey
Archive 2009-04-12 Zen Tiger 2009
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Now the government has promised to field a whole new corps of counterspies and analysts against the Islamist threat, but German officials say they haven't even been hired yet, let alone trained and deployed.
Catch Me If You Can 2007
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Dennis Johnson won the fiction prize for "Tree of Smoke," which, as the Associated Press recounts, "tells of spies, counterspies and others caught up in the blur and horror of Vietnam from the day after President Kennedy was shot until the early 1980s."
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That whole place must be a cesspool of spies and counterspies and traitors and cutthroats and the like.
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