counter-argument

Example Sentences

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The Cut ran a counter-argument to its original column that pointed out how taxing “screen management” can be at home, and Slate bemoaned the pressure that comes with planning “summer de-escalation.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025

They check and check and check to ensure they won't face problems after their programmes go out - or if they do, that they have the counter-argument ready.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

My bank account would give a strong counter-argument.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2024

If the Cowboys can get another one, Jones will have a little more fodder for his counter-argument.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023

As for the barbarians' complaints, he disparaged them, offering no counter-argument, but asserting that the dispute which the prince had with Tigranes concerned some boundaries, and that three men should decide the case for them.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Foster, Herbert Baldwin