How to Use countermeasure in a Sentence

countermeasure

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  • Now the forestry groups have filed their own countermeasures.
    — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The law and the countermeasure have raised questions across one of the state’s largest industries.
    — Suhauna Hussainstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But the Chiefs authored two countermeasures that turned the Super Bowl.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Chalk has been the countermeasure to sweat since the heyday of dirtbaggers.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • The root cause of [Iran’s] countermeasures are obvious to us.
    — Erin Cunningham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • Satellites evolve new ways to exploit helpers and helpers evolve countermeasures to block them.
    — The Conversation, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
  • At that time, the plan was to bank it in the Strategic National Stockpile as a countermeasure in case smallpox was weaponized.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Without the right kind of countermeasures in place, the site cannot tell that a visitor has installed such software in a browser.
    — Chris Baraniuk, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
  • As a countermeasure, in 2018 CityBridge, the company that operates pay phones and Links for the city, added a timer feature.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
  • Dent went to Boehner’s staff to suggest a countermeasure.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, the enemy has begun to develop countermeasures, so the Army of Drones has had to adapt and refine its tactics and its gear.
    — WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • The countermeasures against cold water, on the other hand, are more obvious.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The countermeasures would be to take out the missiles that are in development by Russia in violation of the treaty.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2018
  • There’s a simple countermeasure to these strip-like minefields.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • When retailers roll out one countermeasure, the scalpers work to circumvent it, resulting in an endless game of cat and mouse.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The challenge for Beijing is to figure out precisely what such countermeasures will look like.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 July 2018
  • The world has signaled its alarm with a wave of countermeasures: Several American cities have banned plastic straws.
    — James Rainey /, NBC News, 13 June 2018
  • As a countermeasure, empathy training has shown good results throughout the course of a child’s schooling.
    — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The agency didn’t specify the countermeasures or when they would be enacted.
    — Chao Deng, WSJ, 9 May 2019
  • If stay-at-home orders and other countermeasures keep working, there should be few deaths after July.
    — Sharon Begley, STAT, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Meanwhile, as a countermeasure, the silo was filling with water to douse potential flames and dilute the vapor.
    — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2020
  • China has threatened to match U.S. tariffs with its own countermeasures.
    — David Hodari, WSJ, 11 July 2018
  • As a countermeasure, they must be held to higher standards than the average member of society.
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 17 July 2021
  • More tariffs certainly wouldn’t help, and the U.S. economy would feel the impact of Chinese countermeasures.
    — Thomas J. Duesterberg, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
  • Just a series of countermeasures, explained in a measured release.
    — Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • In other words, a possible countermeasure to the Chinese navy’s steadily-growing fleet of flattops.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • No single countermeasure will be the cure-all for the event but Boles is hopeful this latest venture — in combination with others — will help reverse a troubling trend.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2018
  • Once detected, Drone Dome can utilize two countermeasures to employ against drones: a radio frequency jammer or the laser weapon above.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Being able to safely work with pigs could help reveal how Nipah virus spreads and help researchers develop countermeasures.
    — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 23 May 2023
  • Other countermeasures are likely as the outbreak evolves.
    — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 28 Jan. 2020

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