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He was rebutting comments from CNN’s Jake Tapper, co-anchor of competing Sunday show “State of the Union.”
‘MORAL POSTURING’: FOX NEWS’S CHRIS WALLACE CRITICIZES THE SHUNNING OF ‘BIG LIE’ PROPONENTSERIK WEMPLEJUNE 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHow Stansbury respondedWhat’s noteworthy is how Stansbury rebutted these attacks.
AN UGLY NEW GOP ATTACK LINE IS PROMPTING A USEFUL RETHINK AMONG DEMOCRATSGREG SARGENTJUNE 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMcAuliffe ignored the attacks, after briefly rebutting Carroll Foy in their last debate.
THE TRAILER: SOCIALISTS, PROUD BOYS, AND ANTI-MASKERS: THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT STRUGGLES TO KEEP UP IN NEVADADAVID WEIGELJUNE 3, 2021WASHINGTON POSTShe extensively quoted Ardrey’s Territorial Imperative in order to rebut his characterization of men as baboon-like.
TARZAN WASN’T FOR HER - ISSUE 100: OUTSIDERSERIKA LORRAINE MILAMJUNE 2, 2021NAUTILUSThe next day on Twitter, Musk replied twice to a Discover tweet rebutting his comment.
SHOULD WE TERRAFORM MARS? LET’S RECAP - ISSUE 100: OUTSIDERSBRIAN GALLAGHERMAY 12, 2021NAUTILUSWe have seen what curious use he made of this theory of special missions to rebut Irish claims.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KINGModern American historians, such as Beer, themselves rebut the charge.
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKINDHERBERT GEORGE WELLSThey and our lawyers will now butt and rebut as long as a goat of them is left alive on either side.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE, VOLUME IIBURTON J. HENDRICKAs Napier made no attempt to rebut that view, she dropped her head, struggling an instant with some new enemy to self-control.
THE MESSENGERELIZABETH ROBINSAmazon could not be accused in connection with them, so Christian reflected, and prepared herself to rebut any such slander.
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WORDS RELATED TO REBUT
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