riposte

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

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

There his words went unbroadcasted and almost unnoticed, until AEC commissioner Willard Libby issued a public riposte that served chiefly to bring Schweitzer’s statement to Americans’ attention despite the blackout.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The courtroom sequence transcends what we’ve been trained to expect, the dramatic reveals, ripostes and objections.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

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

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

Risk after risk was declined, and the turns and ripostes were fast and furious.

From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy

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

"You are pleased to be sympathetic, my lord," I riposted, "whereby you do no credit to my common sense."

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

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

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

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