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argumentative

[ahr-gyuh-men-tuh-tiv] / ˌɑr gjəˈmɛn tə tɪv /


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Adams was a balding curmudgeon from Massachusetts—brainy, argumentative and physically ill-favored.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

If you’re skeptical about how exciting a movie about the weather on D-day might be, “Pressure” takes that as a creative challenge, an argumentative stance from which to start.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Yet Bengal - argumentative and steeped in a self-image of cultural exceptionalism - remained stubbornly resistant.

From BBC May 4, 2026

So there’s a theory percolating online that if you adopt the qualities of a stone, becoming impassive and bland, then you will repel the argumentative, antagonistic people in your life who are itching for conflict.

From New York Times May 31, 2024

But pure mathematics had a higher status, with the result that there was a constant hankering after the language and argumentative style of pure mathematics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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