argue
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Wat directs them to leave immediately but Max starts to argue about the exit plan and soon enough those crazy kids are on their own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
But victim support campaigners argue the orders are "an essential element of Scotland's justice system".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Advocates of private-school voucher programs argue against restrictions on how the schools operate and push back against the type of oversight enforced on public schools.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Movements argue about the Constitution, organize around it, and sometimes make claims powerful enough that courts later recognize them as law.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Grandmary, in a tone one doesn’t argue with, tells me she expects me to be at Sandy June’s, where she’ll be making the best frybread ever.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Part of the answer, he argues, lies in what he calls "SIMIs" - seemingly insignificant minor interactions.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The suit argues that owning the Golden Globes would “solidify a vertical and horizontal monopoly on the awards market.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Krishna Chintalapalli, portfolio manager at Parnassus Investments, argues that the changes are good news.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
But for Hoerz -- who argues that "the heuriger in its 'traditional' form died out by the mid-1990s at the latest" -- change has come at the price of "diversity".
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
“The animals should rest a full day before trying to cross the river,” argues Caesar.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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MarketWatch: Your seminal 1975 Financial Analysts Journal article, “The Loser’s Game,” argued that most professional money managers cannot beat the market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Critics argued that memes, profanity and irreverent jokes trivialised a campaign fighting to strengthen India's education system.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Swonk argued that the "hawks" at the Fed -- those policymakers who consider it appropriate to raise interest rates to combat high prices -- were multiplying.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Adopting pets in the winter of their lives seemed like a quick heartbreak only a masochist would want, I argued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Some delegates objected and argued that if slaves were “property,” why not count all property, including horses and houses?
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Many such groups advocated for the restoration of Measure J, arguing that it was necessary to serve the will of the voters and provide crucial alternatives to the carceral system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Shipton's daughter Tracy Faram Shipton said her mother was "horrifically traumatised" and had filed an appeal, arguing the sentence handed to Harris last week was unduly lenient.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“I very clearly suspect you of having punished transparency,” he wrote in the letter, arguing that rivals who had refused to engage with the newspaper had received more favorable treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Once again, we are seeing what it looks like when it is not just lawyers somewhere off arguing but is very much in collaboration with the communities directly affected.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
I think the only reason he agreed to keep the plant is because he enjoys arguing about it with me.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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