counterargument

Example Sentences

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The counterargument to tanking is simple: It’s intentional losing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

The counterargument is that you can’t make a villain out of that year’s actual champion, Max Verstappen, when Sonny drives a lot like him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

One counterargument is that we haven’t had a fatal crash in 15 years.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2025

“The counterargument is, you know, ‘Aren’t you promoting a constitutional crisis?’

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2024

Olbers’s counterargument was that the light from distant stars would be dimmed by absorption by intervening matter.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking