riposte
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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
She is both a riposte to the Calvinist effort to silence female Remonstrants and a Spinozan rationalist—a “Christian without a church.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The hook, "you can use my lyrics as your captions", is a delectably scathing riposte to a musician who sniped her style.
From BBC ● 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
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
It is body language and facial expressions and sharp ripostes.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
Greer’s wordplay is glorious: He drop-shots puns and ripostes, firing up his prose.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
Listeners on Friday were quick to notice Drake’s apparent ripostes to West.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
Risk after risk was declined, and the turns and ripostes were fast and furious.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
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
And Archy riposted at once with evidence that he himself was the victim of a foul conspiracy between the Captain and the crew over the grub.
From Command by William McFee
"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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