riposte
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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
And there's a cheeky riposte to their critics on the jazzy potboiler They Don't Know 'Bout Us: "You say we changed? We feel the same."
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 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
Bellingham found the net late in the rout of Monaco and celebrated by chugging imaginary drinks, which was an apparent riposte to claims he has been enjoying Spanish nightlife.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
A riposte unsettles your opponent, signaling aggression, quickness, and both defensive and offensive power.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
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
The answers had come clear, sharp, and distinct, quick ripostes of the foils against the violent attack.
From The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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
“Yes, my client is a reflexologist,” riposted Tron’s lawyer, Olivier Schnerb.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2011
"Pardon, Mademoiselle," I riposted as lightly and as gallantly as I could, "I see before me the living proof that angels, at any rate, dwell therein."
From Castles in the Air by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
"And it's my business to give a clip 'side o' the 'ed," said Jones, riposting.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard
She turned this off by riposting lightly, "How much is it safe to trust anybody?"
From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy
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