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argue
verb as in verbally fight
Strong matches
altercate, bandy, battle, bicker, buck, cross, feud, hammer, hash, hassle, jump, pettifog, rehash, row, sass, wrangle
Weak matches
break with, bump heads, cross swords, face down, face off, gang up on, get in one's face, go one-on-one, hammer away, hash over, have at each other, have at it, jump on, knock around, lock horns, mix it up, pick an argument, put up a fight, put up a struggle, set to, sock it to, stick it to, talk back
verb as in try to convince; present support
Strongest matches
appeal, assert, claim, contend, defend, demonstrate, explain, indicate, maintain, plead, present, suggest, testify
Strong matches
attest, controvert, denote, display, elucidate, establish, evince, exhibit, hold, imply, justify, manifest, persuade, reason, show, vindicate, warrant, witness
Weak matches
verb as in discuss, dispute
Strong matches
Example Sentences
But the UK's supermarkets have argued large retail premises were a "tiny proportion of all stores, yet account for a third of retail's total business rates".
She said her ex-husband had been "lying" to the court when his legal team argued he could not be held fully responsible for his actions due to his history of depression.
But while social-media buzz can certainly help a stock in the short term, professional investors would argue that it can’t succeed in the long term if the fundamentals of the business are deteriorating.
If AI turns out to be garbage, they’ll still have functional power plants and we’ll still be arguing about whether windmills cause cancer.
“I would actually recommend that maybe we start staying in town,” said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, arguing, “it just forces us to come together and really start reckoning with the shutdown.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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