rebuttal
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Erica Donald’s three-word rebuttal on X to speculation about her husband playing football again was also light-hearted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
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
Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 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 author was invited to reply, and wrote a rebuttal called—of course—“Leave Leave Leave Your Language Alone Alone Alone.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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