How to Use argumentation in a Sentence

argumentation

noun

• He tried to use argumentation to convince his opponents, rather than force.
• Many people on the right hate her, of course, and not just for her skill in argumentation.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• But the point is, it’s about the argumentation and the evidence — not just the number of people that believe something.
  — Allison Whitten, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2022
• Jolles pulls it off because his comedic skill set lends itself well to argumentation.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
• Because argumentation focused on specifics like sleep and soap, those were the examples laid out in the opinion.
  — Melissa Howell, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2019
• And there were plenty of subjects that remained off limits for argumentation.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• The hope is that the blind will lead the blind, in the sense that those that know nothing of substance on the AI topic will end up inadvertently goading others into equally vacuous argumentation.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• It’s not just Disney using the pandemic in their argumentation.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 July 2021
• The reader feels less and less interested in the narrative vicissitudes, and might well start glazing over in those passages of argumentation in which each thing is revealed to be its opposite.
  — Sven Birkerts, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
• Music is no stranger to argumentation and the tireless dance of human subjectivity.
  — Riordan Zentler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 June 2017
• So while an amicus’s argumentation can be persuasive, its support for one party or the other carries little weight.
  — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
• That purpose is found only in Morgan’s related scholarly essays, where the book’s argumentation can be seen in burgeoning force.
  — William Hogeland, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
• Roberts, by their account, was deeply informed by his conservatism but also showed a willingness to be persuaded by legal argumentation.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
• There are lots of other pitfalls to clear reasoning in economic argumentation.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2017
• Eastman’s reply was not a model of legal argumentation.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
• His characteristic brew of Yiddish jokes, brainy comics and incisive argumentation is a pleasure to read, even when the subjects are technical and mathematical.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
• One purpose of debate is to challenge mainstream thinking by identifying unique angles of argumentation.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
• More seriously, this line of argumentation is bizarre on scientific grounds.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2013
• That’s because a lecture series better lends itself to argumentation than storytelling.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• In short, the United States got the resolution not by clever arm-twisting or persuasive argumentation but by accommodating Beijing's reservations.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Dan Lahav, a computer scientist on the team who had also been a champion debater, estimated that there were between fifty and seventy types of argumentation that could be applied to just about every possible debate question.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2021
• Historically, managers were picked for their legal experience, or for their skills of argumentation.
  — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
• In most cases, commenters bypassed argumentation for convenient name-calling or escalated a civil discussion by posting contextless claims with no links or source.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2020
• Harris’s fervent argumentation sometimes feels repetitious or meandering, but conviction and research burn through the page and give coherence and urgency to a daunting subject.
  — Federico Perelmuter, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• Lyons, an actor himself before turning to playwriting — this is his Broadway debut as an author, and Levingston’s as a director — is operating here in a different tradition from most contemporary fare, which is built on ideas and argumentation.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• The primary aim of each of the photographers is artistic, not argumentative or sociological, though in several cases argumentation comes in a close second.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
• While computers will not be ambling to a political podium any time soon, a study published today in Nature suggests that this algorithm is inching closer to engaging in the type of complex human interaction represented by formal argumentation.
  — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2021
• Ratings for grammar, vocabulary and argumentation were similar between groups.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Time, 20 Oct. 2017
• Yes, indeed, it’s been a quarter century of exceptional writing, exacting argumentation, memorable wit, intramural debate, and unremitting opposition to and merciless mockery of stupid and noxious ideas.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Oct. 2021
• For him, the argumentation was purely practical: Human productivity is positively influenced by longer weekends.
  — Azamat Omuraliev, Quartz, 27 June 2019

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