riposte

It doesn't have Lagos's famous, and infamous, raucousness -- but neither does it have a riposte to the Lagos' film industry, known as Nollywood, or its major corporate headquarters and roster of Afrobeats stars.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

A lot of dyed-in-the-wool activists were turned off by the flippancy of AOC’s riposte, and even with my own recent grappling over the problematic emotional landscape of the movement, I can understand why.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

And so, in a self-deceiving riposte, Mrs. Biden and her husband’s advisers repeated and repeated and repeated the exact opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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

There his words went unbroadcasted and almost unnoticed, until AEC commissioner Willard Libby issued a public riposte that served chiefly to bring Schweitzer’s statement to Americans’ attention despite the blackout.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

One of the most hilarious ripostes to Nazism is still Mel Brooks’ “The Producers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

If Violet Crawley seasoned her ripostes with a sense of knowing that comes from having broken a few rules herself – confirmed in the second “Downton” movie, by the way – that explained her charm.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024

But these inflections were themselves sarcastic declarations, ripostes that did not invite discussion but instead ended it.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

Jaffee was also known for a regular segment called Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, which included sarcastic ripostes to silly questions.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2023

The answers had come clear, sharp, and distinct, quick ripostes of the foils against the violent attack.

From The Heart of a Woman by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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

Nonsense, riposted geologist Hugh Miller: only feeble poets are put off by knowledge.

From Nature ● Jul. 5, 2012

The Times riposted that “there is something essentially funny in the implications of a hotel conducted exclusively for women.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2012

His opponent with a desperate promptitude parried and riposted; the parry only just succeeded, the riposte failed.

From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Other times, you’ll see her riposting a man named @JrGoob.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

She turned this off by riposting lightly, "How much is it safe to trust anybody?"

From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield

"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