straw man
Example Sentences
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“It doesn’t really matter where Donald Trump accepts the Republican nomination—if he wins the whole country would be under that rule—I think that’s a straw man argument,” Johnson said.
From Salon
The commissioner’s office sees the players’ complaint as a straw man.
From Seattle Times
"It turned out that neither the country, nor the army, nor Russian industry were ready for war, and so-called Ukraine was far from being a straw man in military terms."
From Reuters
I respectfully suggest that this is a straw man even an Alaskan salmon could identify.
From Salon
Many staff members agreed with Mr. Licht on the general notion that the network should play it straight, and he and others viewed the new leadership as “punching at a straw man.”
From New York Times
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