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

She is both a riposte to the Calvinist effort to silence female Remonstrants and a Spinozan rationalist—a “Christian without a church.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

There were questions asked of Scotland and head coach Gregor Townsend after the opening weekend defeat by Italy but you would struggle to find a more emphatic riposte than their 31-20 victory over England.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

A riposte unsettles your opponent, signaling aggression, quickness, and both defensive and offensive power.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

One of the most hilarious ripostes to Nazism is still Mel Brooks’ “The Producers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

It is body language and facial expressions and sharp ripostes.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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

As for his blows, they fell upon air, for the lad was ever out of reach before the ripostes came.

From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Ralph Peacock

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

Nonsense, riposted geologist Hugh Miller: only feeble poets are put off by knowledge.

From Nature ● Jul. 5, 2012

“Yes, my client is a reflexologist,” riposted Tron’s lawyer, Olivier Schnerb.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2011

When their weapons rang and riposted in the little London garden, they could have been very certain that if a third party had interrupted them something at least would have happened.

From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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