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The site now features Billy Wayne’s response to Palin, which includes his all-caps counterdemand for an apology and also a lament that she has lost her way.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2018

The shippers answered with a counterdemand: that the trimmers abandon their 30-year-old system of piecework pay, instead accept regular longshoremen's wages of $3.12 an hour, as they do at all other U.S. ports.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few minutes later, Greenberg dragged himself back to the offices with Smith’s counterdemand: No one was to show up at his barn asking to examine the horse.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand