as in rebuttal
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Recent Examples of counterargument
The evidence is far from definitive; the intuitive counterargument is that having ample access to technical and financial resources facilitates more experimentation than conditions of scarcity.
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The secret to its success: the chatbot, with its access to vast amounts of information across an enormous range of topics, could precisely tailor its counterarguments to each individual.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
This type of claim would be vulnerable to counterarguments.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 July 2024
The sheriff’s fiery counterargument is that the whole social order would collapse without some kind of an organizing principle.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The secret to its success: the chatbot, with its access to vast amounts of information across an enormous range of topics, could precisely tailor its counterarguments to each individual.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
This type of claim would be vulnerable to counterarguments.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 July 2024
The sheriff’s fiery counterargument is that the whole social order would collapse without some kind of an organizing principle.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterargument
Noun
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Lee’s trial testimony was the prosecution’s rebuttal.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
20 Mar. 2025
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Elissa Slotkin gave the Democratic rebuttal to Trump just two months into her tenure in the U.S. Senate, having narrowly defeated Republican Mike Rogers to win an open seat in a presidential battleground state — despite Trump carrying the state.—
Joey Cappelletti,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The authors see this as a refutation of the hypothesis that megalodons relied on nursery areas to rear their young, since a baby megalodon would be quite capable of hunting and killing marine mammals based on size alone.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
9 Mar. 2025
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By this point, there’s no need to rehash its difficult production: What matters is what’s on the screen, a tale of how a wayward son (Al Pacino) discovers that his mild refutations of his family’s dark business are ultimately just talk.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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 2 Apr. 2025.
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