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Recent Examples of counterargument
Document your successes and revisit them regularly to build a factual counterargument to self-doubt.
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Patricia Kennedy, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
To me the more compelling counterargument is that RCV seems unlikely to do anything to reduce partisanship and encourage cross-party compromise.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Her counterargument, essentially, is that his atheism, too, boils down to a kind of feeling.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
There is also the counterargument that users don't have to stay on the site.
—Peter Suciu, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Patricia Kennedy, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
To me the more compelling counterargument is that RCV seems unlikely to do anything to reduce partisanship and encourage cross-party compromise.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Her counterargument, essentially, is that his atheism, too, boils down to a kind of feeling.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
There is also the counterargument that users don't have to stay on the site.
—Peter Suciu, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterargument
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On Friday, the Adani Group’s CFO rejected all allegations, and on Wednesday, Adani Green Energy filed a rebuttal of the claims of the indictment, pushing up shares of the Adani Group.Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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Julia Tarver Wood, the government’s lead lawyer, handled the Justice Department’s rebuttal to Ms. Dunn’s arguments.David McCabe, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Is the month-long surge in Treasury yields a confirmation, a refutation, or a threat, to the prevailing soft-economic-landing outlook?Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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That was interpreted, understandably, as a refutation of the company’s recent push toward more diverse characters and creators.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
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Other scientists point to a mountain of counterevidence showing that facial movements during emotions vary too widely to be universal beacons of emotional meaning.Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
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Archaeological and geological counterevidence concerning Oak Island and the Money Pit point to something well short of an Indiana Jones movie.Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
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“Counterargument.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterargument. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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