argument

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But that argument is undermined by the short-term responses of Treasury rates in the closest analogous crisis: the 1973 embargo on oil shipments to the U.S. by the petroleum-exporting countries in the Middle East.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

I’ve written about secrecy in government, and the argument about the Presidential Records Act has a familiar ring.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

But I am frustrated as a medical doctor that a complex issue like fertility—and the trumped-up threat of small penises and “population collapse”—was hijacked without scientific merit as the main argument against plastic.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

“It is time to hold them accountable,” Jeffrey Kessler, an attorney for the states, said in a closing argument.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

And I told him about Papi, about Uncle Manfred and Aunt Lotti, and all the good times we had had down on the farm, and about the argument that had split the family.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo