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- noun A
wave (as of public opinion) going against an earlier wave.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They say the new strategy has brought Bajaur and the neighboring district of Mohmand back "under the writ of the government," setting up a "counterwave" of government victories that has prevented "the Taliban marching to the capital."
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Those protests, in turn, have led to a counterwave of Chinese nationalism.
Dalai Lama, China 2008
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In a wave or cloud, these leading lines show the run of the tide and of the wind, and the sort of change which the water or vapour is at any moment enduring in its form, as it meets shore, or counterwave, or melting sunshine.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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When the tricorder locked on to the energy barrier’s modulation signature and began outputting a counterwave into the phaser, he pulled the trigger.
Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990
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When the tricorder locked on to the energy barrier’s modulation signature and began outputting a counterwave into the phaser, he pulled the trigger.
Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990
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When the tricorder locked on to the energy barrier’s modulation signature and began outputting a counterwave into the phaser, he pulled the trigger.
Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990
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