counterargument

Example Sentences

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The counterargument to tanking is simple: It’s intentional losing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

They ran into every argument and counterargument that have tugged, pulled and paralyzed other communities.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

In his latest special, Pete Holmes makes a forceful counterargument to atheist comics like Ricky Gervais who mock belief in God.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2023

The wife-and-husband team serves a strong, but never stern, counterargument to the visionaries promising that we’ll put humans on Mars in the very near future.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2023

Already, however, there was a counterargument brewing in the recesses of my own conscience.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama