straw man
Example Sentences
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But Mr. Brown, in his refusal to credit counterbalancing positives, such as Roosevelt’s prodigious intellect or his genuine empathy for the less fortunate, risks reducing TR to a one-dimensional straw man.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
It’s just a straw man that Oldham dreamed up to defend ghost gun buyers—whom he depicted, with a straight face, as noble, “law-abiding” gunsmiths partaking in a grand American “tradition of self-made arms.”
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2024
"It's a straw man, it's a boogie monster, it's not really a real thing, so they make up stories," she said.
From Reuters • Feb. 23, 2023
To the contrary, critics have been habitually dismissed as attacking a "straw man," or of putting forward their critiques in "bad faith."
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022
"I'm supposed to ride against the straw man."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
