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Recent Examples of counterargument
The obvious counterargument is that Fedde’s current performance has already hurt his value.
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Katie Woo, New York Times, 11 July 2025
By role-playing and practicing the counterarguments, this resistance skills training provides a sort of psychological innoculation against misinformation and disinformation, at least temporarily.
—Shaon Lahiri, The Conversation, 7 July 2025
This opportunity to learn from Ukraine provides, among other things, a powerful counterargument to those who question the merits of continuing to support Ukraine: the United States can benefit from Ukraine’s unique technological capabilities and knowledge of U.S. adversaries.
—Jon Finer, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2025
Look, Breeding understands the counterarguments, too.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 15 June 2025
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Katie Woo, New York Times, 11 July 2025
By role-playing and practicing the counterarguments, this resistance skills training provides a sort of psychological innoculation against misinformation and disinformation, at least temporarily.
—Shaon Lahiri, The Conversation, 7 July 2025
This opportunity to learn from Ukraine provides, among other things, a powerful counterargument to those who question the merits of continuing to support Ukraine: the United States can benefit from Ukraine’s unique technological capabilities and knowledge of U.S. adversaries.
—Jon Finer, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2025
Look, Breeding understands the counterarguments, too.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 15 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterargument
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In a searing rebuttal days before the British socialite was convicted for procuring victims for Epstein’s abuse in December 2021, Comey spoke to the perverted duo’s reasons for targeting teens from disadvantaged backgrounds.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
17 July 2025
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During the state’s rebuttal, Assistant State’s Attorney John Sviokla addressed the defense’s argument of a financial motivation.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
3 July 2025
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The Declaration is sometimes championed by right-libertarians and left-liberals alike as a paean to individualism and a refutation of communitarianism of any kind.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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Every American Girl has the same problems to overcome, and that’s a clear refutation of a progressivist view of history.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
9 July 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 5 Aug. 2025.
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