How to Use straw man in a Sentence
straw man
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That kept their favorite straw man alive to take more hits.
—Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2021
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Senator Brown’s $300 per month tax cut is a straw man in more ways than one.
—Norbert Michel, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
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The book has the confounding idea of rebelling against recipes as a sort of villainous straw man.
—Wired, 1 Aug. 2022
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Part of it is human nature, and because there isn't a white straw man at the end of that, the villain is really the system.
—Joshua Rivera, GQ, 10 May 2018
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But the claim is a straw man: there is no epidemic of pandemic denial.
—Jacob Hale Russell, STAT, 23 Dec. 2020
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Notably, Villanueva appears to have set up a straw man here.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
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Campillo is much more interested in the push and pull of each discussion, and in making sure there are no straw men to root against.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
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But one of the report's authors suggested Koonin is creating a straw man.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
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The issue has produced a lot of straw men, largely owing to a revenue and salary model that differs a great deal from most American sports.
—Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 8 July 2019
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Evison says book banning is a political straw man, and the stakes are much higher than just the books being targeted.
—Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
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The Utah Senator set up the straw man that the President’s lawyers said an impeachable act must also be a criminal offense.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
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One piece of advice comes from Natarajan: Rebut the strongest, and not the weakest, version of an opposing argument; steel man, don’t straw man.
—Bo Seo, The Atlantic, 1 June 2022
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The Axe debuted on the eve of a baseball game between the universities in 1899, when Stanford students used it to decapitate a straw man adorned in Cal blue and gold.
—Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 26 Nov. 2020
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The attempt to shut down all such conversations in the name of a broad, blurred, straw man version of Critical Race Theory does not serve the nation’s best interests.
—Peter Greene, Forbes, 23 June 2021
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Most importantly, this volume reveals that Coates’ critics to have been attacking a straw man all along.
—Ismail Muhammad, New Republic, 26 Oct. 2017
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Too often, a debate can turn into trading arguments about whose straw man fell down the slippery slope onto Occam’s razor the most.
—Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
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Indeed, the series opens with a flashback of Suleiman as a child rather than any introduction to Ryan, and there’s obvious care taken to make the Muslim characters more than stereotypes or straw men.
—Karen Han, Vox, 31 Aug. 2018
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Shivaun Raff believes that some of search neutrality’s critics were simply attacking a straw man.
—Adi Robertson, The Verge, 6 Dec. 2018
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Richard Warshak, a leading proponent of parental alienation theory, has written that many critics misunderstand the theory or create a straw man to dismiss it.
—Kathryn Joyce, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Our suspicion is that the many gravity modellers from around the world evaluated a nonsensical Brexit straw man during the referendum, in order to oppose it.
—The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
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But instead of rallying behind any of these causes, some of the most powerful and visible women in media and entertainment are busy using trans people as a straw man to express a nebulous fear that the word woman itself is somehow under threat.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 5 July 2022
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His rationale was a legally frivolous straw man: Clinton had not intended to harm national security.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
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Funneling money surreptitiously to campaigns through other donors — known as straw man donations — would violate federal campaign finance laws.
—New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
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