riposte
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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
In a quiet riposte to this, the king in his speech to Congress will riff on past military endeavors the two countries have undertaken and the sacrifice both nations have made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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
Vivi looks immensely pleased with herself for that particular riposte.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
One of the most hilarious ripostes to Nazism is still Mel Brooks’ “The Producers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
She has also urged China’s leaders to temper their authoritarian policies, criticism that has elicited tart ripostes from Chinese officials.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
The answers had come clear, sharp, and distinct, quick ripostes of the foils against the violent attack.
From The Heart of a Woman by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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
"We'll show you soon enough what you are standing on, my fine fellow," the gendarme riposted with breezy, cheerfulness.
From Castles in the Air by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
She turned this off by riposting lightly, "How much is it safe to trust anybody?"
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
"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
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