riposte

It doesn't have Lagos's famous, and infamous, raucousness -- but neither does it have a riposte to the Lagos' film industry, known as Nollywood, or its major corporate headquarters and roster of Afrobeats stars.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

And so, in a self-deceiving riposte, Mrs. Biden and her husband’s advisers repeated and repeated and repeated the exact opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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

Vivi looks immensely pleased with herself for that particular riposte.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

He’s quick with ripostes, righteous in off-the-cuff remarks and has a do-gooder aura that never comes off as sanctimonious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

So much has been said about the Old Firm's inability to break through their young players, but Clement has some decent ripostes to that criticism now.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

If Violet Crawley seasoned her ripostes with a sense of knowing that comes from having broken a few rules herself – confirmed in the second “Downton” movie, by the way – that explained her charm.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024

Greer’s wordplay is glorious: He drop-shots puns and ripostes, firing up his prose.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

There are three kinds of ripostes: direct, with feints and after a pause.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

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

Binyamin Appelbaum, The Times’s economics wiz, riposted on Twitter: “A more accurate characterization of the housing bubble is that it was one of the largest orgies of white collar criminality in American history.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2018

Nonsense, riposted geologist Hugh Miller: only feeble poets are put off by knowledge.

From Nature ● Jul. 5, 2012

Then he saw the point, and riposted deftly.

From The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson

Other times, you’ll see her riposting a man named @JrGoob.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

"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