Definitions
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- noun A
challenge made in response to another challenge.
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- verb challenge in turn
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here is my counterchallenge: Name one American freedom that has been preserved by the invasion of Iraq.
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Tuomas said: Here is my counterchallenge: Name one American freedom that has been preserved by the invasion of Iraq.
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Here is my counterchallenge: Name one American freedom that has been preserved by the invasion of Iraq.
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Consider the peculiar quality of the opening sequence of Richard II, the long build-up of charge and countercharge, claim and counterclaim, challenge and counterchallenge that Thomas Mowbray and Henry Bolingbroke engage in at great length before their sovereign, King Richard II.
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At the same time CBS's lawyers began to go through every aspect of Murrow's own past, in preparation for McCarthy's expected counterchallenge.
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At the same time CBS's lawyers began to go through every aspect of Murrow's own past, in preparation for McCarthy's expected counterchallenge.
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His queries were usually answered by a counterchallenge respecting the place from whence he came.
Chapter I 1917
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