How to Use counterargument in a Sentence

counterargument

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  • Keep reading for more details and the counterargument...
    — Caitlin Owens, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The counterargument: Markets could interpret a half-point cut as a sign the Fed thinks the economy is in worse shape than even the more alarming recent data suggests.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The counterargument here is that more MLS games are good for him in the long run.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Trying to cut through the thicket of the mayor's counterarguments, I got lost in the weeds.
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The counterargument to that malaise came wrapped in a corn shell both soft and crispy at the same time, a puffy taco filled with lush beef picadillo.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Now, the counterargument here is that AI is not a camera, and that a camera is a camera.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 May 2024
  • Trump will be able to respond to Smith's counterargument, and his deadline to do so is next week.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Is that the counterargument that should be given a voice?
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2020
  • But neither side can fully claim to be right, and there are strong counterarguments to both sides.
    — Christian Paz, Vox, 2 July 2024
  • What’s the counterargument to why to impose this kind of management system in the first place?
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 19 May 2018
  • The counterargument — and a really compelling one — lies 130 miles to the south.
    — Curbed, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But the counterarguments were: Should the Loons trade down to a lower spot in the first round, obtain more assets and still select Dotson?
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Last week, the defense had the same time to present a counterargument to a Senate controlled by a party that wants it all over already.
    — Graeme McMillan, Wired, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The counterargument to that sub-.500 mark, according to T, M and C, is that they were not given nearly enough time.
    — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 28 June 2018
  • The counterargument is that, despite the central bank’s protests, the timing and manner of these cuts matter.
    — The Economist, 30 June 2018
  • The counterargument is that this is necessary to defend against the erosion of norms.
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 8 Apr. 2022
  • This is not a rebuttal or counterargument to any of that.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Cheval Blanc, the city's newest, makes a good counterargument.
    — Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The counterargument is, in effect, the more the merrier.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The counterargument is obvious: McConnell will do what's best for the party, not what's best for Trump.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • There’s a counterargument, of course: Won’t non-work time just be eaten up by unpaid labor, like care work?
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But a bad argument for the cut does not redeem a worse counterargument.
    — John H. Cochrane, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The counterargument is that his lifetime batting stats don’t quite reach Hall of Fame levels.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 24 June 2019
  • The novel wants to establish Klara as a counterargument to this.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2021
  • To be sure, the SDNY has a counterargument, and it will be vigorously made.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • The counterargument, of course, is that those kinds of projects also would have realized their potential on a big screen.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022
  • The tide of xenophobia in the East and the West certainly deserves a robust counterargument.
    — Bilal Qureshi, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • The counterargument is that a molehill can soon enough become a mountain.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The counterargument is that states will suffer if rich taxpayers move to a lower-tax state.
    — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2018
  • The counterargument goes that a slew of Tesla’s rivals are still struggling with teething issues.
    — Esha Dey, Fortune, 17 July 2023

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