as in rebuttal
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Recent Examples of counterargument
The issue is that for every argument there is a counterargument.
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Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
In its defense, Apple makes a number of counterarguments, but the most important is this: The App Store is not a monopoly.
—Gilad Edelman, WIRED, 4 May 2021
The potential counterargument: Grubb’s predecessors faced similar challenges along the offensive line yet had better offenses that scored more points, ran the ball more often and generated more explosive plays (2024 featured Seattle’s lowest explosive play rate since 2017).
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Collectively, the tribal fisheries produce more walleyes than tribal members harvest — an effective counterargument to the claim by some non-tribal anglers that tribal members harvest too much.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
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Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
In its defense, Apple makes a number of counterarguments, but the most important is this: The App Store is not a monopoly.
—Gilad Edelman, WIRED, 4 May 2021
The potential counterargument: Grubb’s predecessors faced similar challenges along the offensive line yet had better offenses that scored more points, ran the ball more often and generated more explosive plays (2024 featured Seattle’s lowest explosive play rate since 2017).
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Collectively, the tribal fisheries produce more walleyes than tribal members harvest — an effective counterargument to the claim by some non-tribal anglers that tribal members harvest too much.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterargument
Noun
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An attorney for McClain will go next, followed by a government rebuttal and then, finally, jury deliberations, which may not begin until Wednesday.—
Ray Long,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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Check out the original tweet, and MacFarlane's rebuttal, below.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But The Dry Season is anything but a refutation of her earlier work.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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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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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 3 Mar. 2025.
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