argue
Usage
Example Sentences
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California officials argued being broke wasn’t enough to justify trimming Hernandez’s bill.
From Los Angeles Times
Officials argued it was "fundamentally not in the public interest" to disclose private conversations between world leaders, warning doing so would inhibit frank exchanges in future.
From BBC
He argues that geopolitics has given the continent's governments more leeway as they slide towards authoritarianism.
From BBC
Critics argue that because the Fed has only one monetary policy instrument, the overnight-interest rate, it should focus on only one goal: low inflation.
“Most of the land currently occupied by UW was densely forested before the land was cleared to make way for the campus,” he argued, according to the decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
