riposte
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In a quiet riposte to this, the king in his speech to Congress will riff on past military endeavors the two countries have undertaken and the sacrifice both nations have made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Damodaran wrote a riposte to the Citrini Research paper published last week that was the subject of much scrutiny and controversy.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
Bellingham found the net late in the rout of Monaco and celebrated by chugging imaginary drinks, which was an apparent riposte to claims he has been enjoying Spanish nightlife.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
We'll get Rodgers's riposte in time, but his era is over now.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
Vivi looks immensely pleased with herself for that particular riposte.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
He’s quick with ripostes, righteous in off-the-cuff remarks and has a do-gooder aura that never comes off as sanctimonious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
It is body language and facial expressions and sharp ripostes.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
The courtroom sequence transcends what we’ve been trained to expect, the dramatic reveals, ripostes and objections.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
Greer’s wordplay is glorious: He drop-shots puns and ripostes, firing up his prose.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
There are three kinds of ripostes: direct, with feints and after a pause.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Confronted by what the authors call “unrelenting brutality,” when given the chance—for example, after the British riposted in the South from late 1778—this beleaguered minority readily retaliated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
He said a cocky Perce riposted to Shackleton: "I think the crew would get more meat from you Sir!"
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022
Binyamin Appelbaum, The Times’s economics wiz, riposted on Twitter: “A more accurate characterization of the housing bubble is that it was one of the largest orgies of white collar criminality in American history.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2018
Nonsense, riposted geologist Hugh Miller: only feeble poets are put off by knowledge.
From Nature ● Jul. 5, 2012
When their weapons rang and riposted in the little London garden, they could have been very certain that if a third party had interrupted them something at least would have happened.
From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
"And it's my business to give a clip 'side o' the 'ed," said Jones, riposting.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird
She turned this off by riposting lightly, "How much is it safe to trust anybody?"
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
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