counter-argument
Example Sentences
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A small counter-argument: it is one thing expecting bad news, it's another actually getting it.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
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
When I talk to regular people who say, "Why should I vote? It doesn't make any difference," I don't always feel like I have a compelling counter-argument.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 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
The positive, the repeated, attribution of the MSS. may not be final, but requires a very serious body of counter-argument to upset it.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
