rebuttal
Example Sentences
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He’s also positioning himself as the tough on China, a rebuttal of sorts to claims he was soft on Mr. Xi.
From Washington Times
The works evolved in response to the artist’s experience of deep-sea diving in the Arctic, and as a rebuttal to Renaissance notions of the sublime, which center on nothingness and death.
From Los Angeles Times
Implicit in the rebuttals is an assumption that, because Crowder packages hatred as "jokes," it's not worth taking seriously.
From Salon
"He hid what he was doing," Nichols told the jury in her rebuttal argument.
From Reuters
In a rebuttal, Moderna wrote that the pay practices Glass Lewis rates as “poor” received a “fair” grade by the firm the previous year, “despite the fact that no significant changes have been made.”
From Washington Post
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