arguments
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At oral arguments earlier this year, lawyers for the state’s court system urged the justices to green-light electronic recording, saying they’d already done everything in their power to fix the problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Seen against that history, her arguments no longer seem to descend from the altitude of solitary thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Madrid dismissed this position, saying it was based on "spurious arguments" that lacked any basis in fact because the migrants who entered Ceuta had no way of entering the Schengen area.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
During closing arguments, prosecutor Linda Singer told jurors that Meta's algorithms had directed adults toward content posted by teenage users while the company concealed internal findings about the risks to young people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The intellectual apparatus of the new science—facts, experiments, theories, laws of nature, evidence—did not establish its worth by philosophical arguments; its success depended upon the fact that, in practice, it produced good results.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
