retort

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When the travel blogger told people about her sleepcation, she mostly heard the same retort: “It’s a sad world we live in where people travel just to sleep,” she recalled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Among the responses threaded below Wilson’s retort, one is an edit of promotional materials for a 2011 television adaptation of Moby-Dick.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

Mamdani's retort is that he's more like a Scandinavian politician, only browner.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

But to that reductive objection, Belflower has a polite retort: “OK, but look at the history.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

Francis’ subsequent retort that he could always look them up got nowhere in persuading Chargaff that we knew where we were going or how to get there.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson