retort
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That prompted Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion, to issue an impromptu retort, saying he hadn’t known that Sotomayor was going to do that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Older generations might retort that they managed to acquire all this knowledge without the help of the internet.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
It was, she wrote, “a retort to all the eye-rollers,” including herself, who dismissed his work “as, at best, a guilty pleasure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
One retort I’ve received when recently presenting this performance data is that the non-U.S. stocks’ lead must trace to a declining U.S. dollar, which would boost the dollar-denominated return of foreign stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
He had his mouth set to argue, but I didn’t wait for a retort.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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