counterblow
Americannoun
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Origin of counterblow
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The following year, the Kroll Opera, Otto Klemperer’s progressive Berlin company, delivered a counterblow to the nazification of Wagner when it mounted The Flying Dutchman in proletarian modern dress.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2020
That’s probably the sort of thing we will do in Mali—and what we should do, if France’s rapid counterblow doesn’t stave off the threat.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2013
Thus, presumably the only way to discourage attack is to prove to the potential enemy that an attack would be answered with an overwhelming counterblow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secrecy surrounding the fate of their submarines is a counterblow the American people can give them which may serve to shake some of their superconfidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blow and counterblow between the Spanish king, for the whole West-Indian commerce was a government job, and the merchant nobles of England.
From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
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