counterargument
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Sulzberger goes into more detail in the essay — including about the counterarguments —and I encourage you to read it.
From New York Times
The new plan would also seem to better equip the Met to offer counterarguments when it is presented with a subpoena or seizure order from the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
From New York Times
For a party routinely accused of veiled and even overt racism, Scott is a genial counterargument.
From Washington Post
Unpacking the scale of the accomplishment, Vasarhelyi and Chin examine the anti-American skepticism, far-right conspiracy theories and economic counterarguments that hindered the couple’s ecological ambitions.
From Washington Post
The study is a review of research on attempts to counteract conspiratorial thinking, and it finds that common strategies that involve counterarguments and fact-checking largely fail to change people’s beliefs.
From Scientific American
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