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Recent Examples of counterargument
Despite a compelling counterargument from Haynes, everyone ultimately sided with faithful of all faithfuls Efron, and she was banished.
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Megan McCluskey, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Starr eventually spoke up and presented a strong counterargument.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 6 Mar. 2025
While this may be true (and surely is at times and for some), there are also counterarguments to consider, such as:
Culture isn’t necessarily dependent on physical space; it can be cultivated remotely through intentional efforts.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Megan McCluskey, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Starr eventually spoke up and presented a strong counterargument.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 6 Mar. 2025
While this may be true (and surely is at times and for some), there are also counterarguments to consider, such as:
Culture isn’t necessarily dependent on physical space; it can be cultivated remotely through intentional efforts.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterargument
Noun
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Indian Trail Town Council sets censure hearing Barber asked for a hearing to present a rebuttal after Tuesday’s presentation of the report to the full council.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2025
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This exercise forced teams to acknowledge and address long-standing issues without immediate rebuttals.—
Molly Peck,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 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 17 Apr. 2025.
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