counterargument

Example Sentences

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The bots possess an exhausting reflex to present both sides of every issue, creating a false, artificial balance even when the counterargument is absurd.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

“Brazil” is a counterargument all on its own.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

One counterargument is that we haven’t had a fatal crash in 15 years.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2025

“The counterargument is, you know, ‘Aren’t you promoting a constitutional crisis?’

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2024

Olbers’s counterargument was that the light from distant stars would be dimmed by absorption by intervening matter.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking