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counterplay

  • a word derived from play.

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It isn’t as if Google has become some sort of AI counterplay.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

White has picked up a second pawn and her knights prevent the Black rooks from generating any counterplay.

From Washington Times Jul. 25, 2023

White gets some annoying queenside pressure and Black must scramble to gin up some kingside counterplay.

From Washington Times Apr. 4, 2023

Black seeks counterplay on the a-file, but in the end only leaves himself exposed to White’s more powerful army: 21.

From Washington Times Dec. 20, 2022

It is in the play and counterplay of these new forces that the American literature of the twentieth century must measure itself.

From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Perry, Bliss