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Recent Examples of argumentative While there’s an occasional corny line here, Hanna and Sander wisely keep dialogue on the humorous and/or argumentative side — after all, these are figures who’ve learned the hard way not to admit emotional vulnerability. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024 Venezuela’s ordeal reverberates in the author’s argumentative family: its members’ painful dependencies, moral shortcomings, and monetary mismanagement reflect their country’s breakdowns. Paula Ramón, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 As the scene progresses and gets more dynamically argumentative, the characters move into and through the lighting. Scott Huver, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023 At one point, Judge Michael Gaffey told Chaudhry not to be argumentative when Chaudhry asked Jabbari if the club was loud. Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for argumentative 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for argumentative
Adjective
  • Several House and Senate Democrats supported the passage of the Laken Riley Act despite the bill’s controversial measures.
    Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The Cubs kept his access time brief, knowing he would be asked about the controversial subject.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
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  • With how aggressive Commanders head coach Dan Quinn has been on fourth down, Fangio has to treat third down like second down.
    Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • So far, investors have been relieved President Donald Trump has backed away from aggressive, across-the-board tariffs during his first days in office.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • The loud and contentious debate about whether Indiana and SMU deserved CFP at-large bids overshadowed the reality of postseason football in both college and the NFL.
    Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • President Joe Biden prioritized student loan forgiveness during his term, introducing broad and contentious programs—challenged by his opponents in the courts—to relieve people of large chunks of their college debt.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
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  • Three Israeli hostages were released to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday following a ceasefire deal between Israel and the militant group Hamas.
    Rachel Scully, The Hill, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Palestinian statehood remains very difficult question for Israel to answer, pushed further away by the October 7 attacks and 15 months of brutal war in Gaza against Palestinian militant group Hamas.
    Ellie Cook, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
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  • Some of the more polemical responses to my survey framed podcasting’s pivot to video as a by-product of major tech platforms, specifically Spotify and YouTube, cynically redefining the concept of a podcast to further fuel their attacks on one another.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2024
  • When pluralism implies of ideas, of ideologies, of parties, sometimes inimical to each other, sometimes polemical, sometimes in the attempt to make compromises in order to rule a country.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2016
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  • Instead, she was hounded out of the classroom by authorities hostile to Western literature.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Last year, Trump's predecessor Joe Biden fired the inspector general of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, after an investigation found the official had created a hostile work environment.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
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  • Coaches will tell you of a character who could be grumpy or stubborn, but also of someone who needed faith shown in him.
    The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Thanks to its impressive staying power, this eyeliner can be a bit stubborn to remove.
    Siena Gagliano, Allure, 24 Jan. 2025
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  • By the end, Liverpool’s players seemed tired and Klopp was irritable, clearly in need of a rest.
    Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The trio’s sixth record is charmingly irritable in both of its moods: hopped up on fluffy coffee while cracking baseball jokes, or dragging out downbeats and lamenting power structures to goad listeners with mounting anticipation.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024

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“Argumentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/argumentative. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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