riposte

A lot of dyed-in-the-wool activists were turned off by the flippancy of AOC’s riposte, and even with my own recent grappling over the problematic emotional landscape of the movement, I can understand why.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

She is both a riposte to the Calvinist effort to silence female Remonstrants and a Spinozan rationalist—a “Christian without a church.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Damodaran wrote a riposte to the Citrini Research paper published last week that was the subject of much scrutiny and controversy.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

Bellingham found the net late in the rout of Monaco and celebrated by chugging imaginary drinks, which was an apparent riposte to claims he has been enjoying Spanish nightlife.

From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026

There his words went unbroadcasted and almost unnoticed, until AEC commissioner Willard Libby issued a public riposte that served chiefly to bring Schweitzer’s statement to Americans’ attention despite the blackout.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

He’s quick with ripostes, righteous in off-the-cuff remarks and has a do-gooder aura that never comes off as sanctimonious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

So much has been said about the Old Firm's inability to break through their young players, but Clement has some decent ripostes to that criticism now.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

The courtroom sequence transcends what we’ve been trained to expect, the dramatic reveals, ripostes and objections.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

Greer’s wordplay is glorious: He drop-shots puns and ripostes, firing up his prose.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

Kapor ripostes that the telcos and the Internet are entirely different animals.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

Confronted by what the authors call “unrelenting brutality,” when given the chance—for example, after the British riposted in the South from late 1778—this beleaguered minority readily retaliated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

He said a cocky Perce riposted to Shackleton: "I think the crew would get more meat from you Sir!"

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022

Nonsense, riposted geologist Hugh Miller: only feeble poets are put off by knowledge.

From Nature ● Jul. 5, 2012

“Yes, my client is a reflexologist,” riposted Tron’s lawyer, Olivier Schnerb.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2011

And Archy riposted at once with evidence that he himself was the victim of a foul conspiracy between the Captain and the crew over the grub.

From Command by William McFee

She turned this off by riposting lightly, "How much is it safe to trust anybody?"

From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield

"And it's my business to give a clip 'side o' the 'ed," said Jones, riposting.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird