argue
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Some ecologists argue an intermix of invasive grasses and chaparral creates the most dangerous fire potential.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
You could argue that the managers of costlier ETFs are just charging whatever the market will bear, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Social media firms argue the potential risks are being overstated and that they already provide users with effective safety tools.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The activists may argue that the post was not in earnest, and that no one involved ever seriously intended to bring pills into Texas.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Mutti tried to argue with him, to let her go after Marlene.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Benslimane argues that her privileged background and access to political networks distinguish her from many Moroccan women who have fewer opportunities to enter public life.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Johnson argues that in doing so, Congress did not eliminate district court jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the statutes themselves.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
EchoStar shares have room to surge as much as 67%, argues a newly bullish J.P.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
The show argues that Lichtenstein—a figurehead of “appropriation art” before it was a term—embraced subjects and styles used my mass media in ways that make his work “strikingly prescient and remarkably relevant.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
In order to heal a family, the next generation, or society, she argues, “It’s vital to make the connecting thread between the past and the present.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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The new allegation came in a filing where federal prosecutors argued that Abdulrahman Alfozan, the 35-year-old accused of bugging a restricted OpenAI conference room, should be kept in custody because he is a flight risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
But he argued that his team's actions were justified.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
His attorneys had argued that the escape was instigated by a former Luster attorney who frightened him into running for his life, repeatedly telling him he’d be killed in prison.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Justice Samuel Alito further argued that the law was “based on the technology of the 1980s,” when people had to “go to a Blockbuster store and get a VHS tape.”
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
They argued briefly about whether the T. rex skull could be considered art.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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A Presbyterian seminarian, Talarico has sought to attract independents and Republicans disillusioned with Trump, arguing that Texans have more in common than the country's increasingly bitter political divisions suggest.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Neighbors came out and crowded around, arguing with ICE agents, who were detaining a woman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Bessent pointed to continued American intelligence and military assistance, arguing that Washington was seeking a negotiated end to the war.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
In a 1998 essay, “Population Growth: Disaster or Blessing?,” the prominent development economist Lord Peter Bauer pushed back, arguing that people made family-planning decisions in their own interests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
And hot as I was, I decided that arguing with her would be about as useful as squabbling with the striped wallpaper.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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