gravamen

Example Sentences

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The gravamen of their case, however, will be to show that the president and his policies are a disgrace and must go.

From New York Times

“That’s the gravamen of what Ruth Marcus is saying… that’s not correct and it’s the first glaring inaccuracy. I know this because I was there.”

From Fox News

"The gravamen of the offense here is the president using the power of his office to coerce a foreign nation into helping his presidential campaign to once again interfere in our election, and at the same time withholding foreign aid that country so desperately needs to fight off who? The Russians," Schiff said.

From Fox News

The gravamen of the case for Barr, then, is that he is better than the constitutionally illegitimate and wildly unqualified scammer who is currently acting attorney general.

From Slate

There are substantive aspects of Amis’s critique, but the gist — the “gravamen,” as he might say — is that Corbyn, a humorless, teetotaling vegetarian wedded to an antiquated style of leftism, is woefully uncool.

From New York Times