counterterrorist

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counterterrorist

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  1. not comparable Intended to combat terrorism Henry Kissinger was there; so was Robert Komer, the CIA officer who ran the counterterrorist "pacification" program in 1967 and '68[…].

noun counterterrorists

  1. A person involved in counter-terrorism, who works against terrorists. Every new season of this Fox thriller is another twist of a kaleidoscope: the same pieces — terrorists; counterterrorists (and, almost inevitably, a mole); an innocent suburban family; and the president, his aides and his family — are tumbled together to form new patterns around the central figure o

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adj intended to combat terrorism

Françaiscontreterroriste
Deutschkonterterroristisch
Русскийконтртеррористи́ческий kontrterroristíčeskij

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@misc{counterterrorist_2026,
  title = {counterterrorist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/counterterrorist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}