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How to pronounce countercoup in English?

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Type of coup, coup d'etat, putsch, takeover

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On 9 July, Carmona led a countercoup and named himself President.
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Two army officers and two other men have been arrested on the charge of plotting a countercoup.
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The Soviets quickly supported the dissidents and were noticeably distressed by Numeiry's countercoup.
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In power, following a seriocomic sequence of coup and countercoup, was Latin America's latest left-wing military regime.
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The result, within 48 fast-moving hours, was a counter-countercoup, something that not even Panama has experienced before.
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A countercoup took place on April 13, 1909.
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A quashed countercoup in April involving some of its most crack regiments led to more fissures in the military.
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Feared security chief who led a countercoup against Greece's military leaders and provoked a 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
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Then, back in Panama City, a couple of colonels tried to make it a daily double by turning him out of office in a countercoup.
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More examples
  • A sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat
  • In head injury, a coup injury occurs under the site of impact with an object, and a contrecoup injury occurs on the side opposite the area that was impacted.
  • The Countercoup of 1909 was an attempt to dismantle the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire and replace it with a monarchy under Sultan Abdul Hamid II. ...