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- noun Plural form of
counterthrust .
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Examples
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Once again, the combat was marked by mounted thrusts and counterthrusts.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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Once again, the combat was marked by mounted thrusts and counterthrusts.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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But others, I fear, tend to fall through the cracks precisely because our Constitution seems to confine us to "legalistic" thrusts and counterthrusts and to delegitimize in advance a dialogue based on more "political" considerations.
Balkinization 2006
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They addressed a joint session of Congress, had ticker-tape parades, were sent to seven foreign countries as ambassadors and counterthrusts to Yuri Gagarin and his cosmonauts, and were offered free automobiles and enticing real estate deals.
Space Michener, James 1982
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I made the mistake of attacking and barely stopped his counterthrusts inches from my breast.
The Guns of Avalon Zelazny, Roger 1972
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After a number of additional thrusts and counterthrusts of this sort,
The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 George R. [Commentator] Guffey
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Structure, thought Wynand, is a solved problem of tension, of balance, of security in counterthrusts.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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The Russian counterthrusts in the neighborhood of Warsaw both on the north and the south of the city were repelled by night and day.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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After the initial thrusts and counterthrusts of the campaign, in which Brega changed hands several times, the main wing of the rebel force has been unable to break west from its outpost in Ajdabiya, south-west of the headquarters in Benghazi.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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After the initial thrusts and counterthrusts of the campaign, in which Brega changed hands several times, the main wing of the rebel force has been unable to break west from its outpost in Ajdabiya, south-west of the headquarters in Benghazi.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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