rejoinder

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Russia's defence minister has presented awards to the airmen involved in a pointed rejoinder to U.S. accusations that the incident showed recklessness and possible incompetence on the part of the pilots.

From Reuters

No real tweaks, no rejoinder from the new Swift to the old one — just a searing take on the sort of love that makes for a better song than relationship.

From New York Times

The magazine’s alternative list includes Jacques Barzun’s “God’s Country and Mine,” described as “the definitive rejoinder to fashionable anti-Americanism,” and Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop,” summed up as a “prophetically satiric novel about wars of liberation.”

From Washington Post

Floyd’s picture, created when she was just 13, is an experiment in illuminating her own face, a defiant rejoinder to the ways that the camera can produce racial bias if not used with care.

From New York Times

In a powerful rejoinder, Cooper-Jones chided Justice officials for having sought to secure a plea deal with the McMichaels, an agreement that Arbery’s parents opposed and Wood rejected three weeks ago.

From Washington Post