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Recent Examples of counterargument
In its defense, Apple makes a number of counterarguments, but the most important is this: The App Store is not a monopoly.
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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
So, too, however, is the counterargument that modernization will automatically doom the region's authoritarian regimes.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2012
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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
So, too, however, is the counterargument that modernization will automatically doom the region's authoritarian regimes.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterargument
Noun
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But the Academy’s nominee choices last week feel like an exception: a real — and consequential — rebuttal to the changes swiftly sweeping the country.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Jan. 2025
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Newsweek published a rebuttal to Eastman’s article in 2020 by conservative UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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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 22 Feb. 2025.
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