How to Use counterargument in a Sentence
counterargument
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The counterargument here is that more MLS games are good for him in the long run.
— Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020 -
Trying to cut through the thicket of the mayor's counterarguments, I got lost in the weeds.
— Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018 -
The counterargument to that malaise came wrapped in a corn shell both soft and crispy at the same time, a puffy taco filled with lush beef picadillo.
— Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 26 Dec. 2019 -
Now, the counterargument here is that AI is not a camera, and that a camera is a camera.
— Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 May 2024 -
Trump will be able to respond to Smith's counterargument, and his deadline to do so is next week.
— Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Is that the counterargument that should be given a voice?
— Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2020 -
But neither side can fully claim to be right, and there are strong counterarguments to both sides.
— Christian Paz, Vox, 2 July 2024 -
What’s the counterargument to why to impose this kind of management system in the first place?
— Recode Staff, Recode, 19 May 2018 -
The counterargument — and a really compelling one — lies 130 miles to the south.
— Curbed, 3 Mar. 2023 -
But the counterarguments were: Should the Loons trade down to a lower spot in the first round, obtain more assets and still select Dotson?
— Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2019 -
Last week, the defense had the same time to present a counterargument to a Senate controlled by a party that wants it all over already.
— Graeme McMillan, Wired, 2 Feb. 2020 -
The counterargument to that sub-.500 mark, according to T, M and C, is that they were not given nearly enough time.
— Greg Bishop, SI.com, 28 June 2018 -
The counterargument is that, despite the central bank’s protests, the timing and manner of these cuts matter.
— The Economist, 30 June 2018 -
The counterargument is that this is necessary to defend against the erosion of norms.
— W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 8 Apr. 2022 -
This is not a rebuttal or counterargument to any of that.
— Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Sep. 2017 -
Cheval Blanc, the city's newest, makes a good counterargument.
— Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022 -
The counterargument is that if fault isn’t included, such as a no-fault law, this means that one side is going to take things presumably on the chin.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 -
The counterargument is, in effect, the more the merrier.
— Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2021 -
The counterargument is obvious: McConnell will do what's best for the party, not what's best for Trump.
— Brian Stelter, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019 -
There’s a counterargument, of course: Won’t non-work time just be eaten up by unpaid labor, like care work?
— Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Sep. 2022 -
But a bad argument for the cut does not redeem a worse counterargument.
— John H. Cochrane, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018 -
The counterargument is that his lifetime batting stats don’t quite reach Hall of Fame levels.
— William McGurn, WSJ, 24 June 2019 -
The novel wants to establish Klara as a counterargument to this.
— Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2021 -
To be sure, the SDNY has a counterargument, and it will be vigorously made.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 July 2019 -
The counterargument, of course, is that those kinds of projects also would have realized their potential on a big screen.
— David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022 -
The tide of xenophobia in the East and the West certainly deserves a robust counterargument.
— Bilal Qureshi, Washington Post, 21 June 2019 -
The counterargument is that a molehill can soon enough become a mountain.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2022 -
The counterargument is that states will suffer if rich taxpayers move to a lower-tax state.
— Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2018 -
The counterargument goes that a slew of Tesla’s rivals are still struggling with teething issues.
— Esha Dey, Fortune, 17 July 2023 -
Here are counterarguments for the five key variables that Goldman cited.
— Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
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