counterplan

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Recent Examples of counterplan Also in the news: The trial between Fox News and a voting machine company begins today and Republicans have yet to release a counterplan to the Biden administration's budget proposal. Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterplan
Noun
  • For a while, one male strategy may dominate, and one female counterstrategy dominates as well.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011
  • That male strategy then rises to dominance, and a corresponding female counterstrategy eventually evolves as well.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011
Noun
  • The procedure itself, which Dr. Talei started developing around 10 years ago, takes about 30 to 60 minutes under local anesthesia and the recovery is fairly minor.
    Hedy Phillips, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • These were not the rules of the liberal international order, which sought to supplant power politics with legal procedures.
    Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Last month, after Ukraine accepted Trump's proposal for a 30-day truce, Putin said crucial issues of verification had not been sorted out.
    Guy Faulconbridge and Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
  • After efforts to pass laws were stalled in Miami-Dade County and then rebuffed last year by the Florida Legislature, which also banned counties from setting their own rules, the last agency actively working on proposals was the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Modern tailoring techniques span from crafty embellishments à la Diotima to high-shine and bold color from Wales Bonner; the details are as diverse as the diaspora.
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025
  • This is why training often involves regularization and normalization techniques, methods rooted in statistical theory to prevent overfitting based on rare examples.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Two of the sources said the system bypasses standard Defense Department security protocols.
    Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In effect, the protocol seems to merely facilitate ICE arrests in a manner that is quiet and least disruptive to us.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Contrast that soft-tongue tactic with another Newsom announcement last week unveiling a lawsuit challenging Trump cuts to the AmeriCorps service program in California.
    George Skelton, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • While this is initially a Microsoft account attack, the advanced techniques and obfuscation measures should be a warning to users of all major platforms as to new tactics deployed by attackers and what might be hitting your phone or computer soon.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Lightning struck when this idea converged with advancements in the potential for LLMs to automate customer service.
    William Jones, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Ontario’s Conservative Premier, Doug Ford, has some ideas about that.
    Stephen Maher, Time, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Counterplan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterplan. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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