rebuttal
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BP stock was down again Thursday after ousted chairman Albert Manifold kept the fallout around his departure alive by issuing a 769-word rebuttal explaining he made his own coffee.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
From his office computer in California, he went to deepseek.com—the same web address his friend in China had used—pasted in the rebuttal, and asked the bot to verify each claim.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
She got more and more frustrated, to the point that when Bass was allowed time for a rebuttal, she dejectedly proclaimed, “I haven’t been offered that in a lot of this debate.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
In the West Bengal election, fish has slipped from the plate into the centre of the campaign, recast as proof of cultural fidelity and a rebuttal to charges of intrusion.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
The abolitionist wing of the Methodists circulated his pamphlets on Sunday morning and London periodicals published his arguments without rebuttal.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing rebuttal
Argumentative Writing
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Rhetoric
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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