Example Sentences

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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

Black rightly seeks queenside counterplay but can’t shake White’s single-minded focus on checkmate on the other wing: 19.

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2023

Qb3 Qxa3, but what’s equally impressive is how Zatonskih doesn’t allow her higher-rated opponent a sniff of counterplay for the rest of the game; e.g.

From Washington Times • Jun. 20, 2023

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

From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2023

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