argument

Example Sentences

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Still, investors need to know both sides of the argument so they can decide what to do as Elon Musk’s rocket company looks to complete its record-setting IPO later this week.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

In the fuzzed-out “Envy the Birds,” the frontman recounts an argument between two lovers “spraying bullets of grievances”; the driving “Riptides” is narrated by a guy “too tired to end the war.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The author’s historical range is formidable, with details giving what might have been a dry revisionist argument the texture of lively narrative history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

But it’s now clear that once you abandon all restraint and say the ends justify the means, even if there’s an argument for it, the whole legal edifice crumbles.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

I picked up their bags and went to get the buns, my head throbbing from the cut-off argument with Ba.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu