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  • We finished the presentation of our evidence and, to our surprise, the State put on no rebuttal case.  (source)
  • "YES!" was Patrick's rebuttal.  (source)
    rebuttal = argument in opposition
  • "Rebuttal?" the judge, sounding bored, asked in my direction.  (source)
    Rebuttal = argument against (something)
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  • I wanted to deny it, but another image slowed my rebuttal.  (source)
    rebuttal = argument in opposition
  • "Oh, you were scared silly," said Beatty, "for I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point!"  (source)
    rebut = argue against
  • I had no effective rebuttals, and my reason for wanting to make the trip—/ think I'm supposed to—wasn't something I could explain without sounding even crazier than they already feared I was.†  (source)
    rebuttals = arguments that refute other arguments
  • This was rebutted by a long series of beeps, punctuated only by the audience making oooohhhhh noises.†  (source)
    rebutted = argued that something is not true
  • And know, that the vice which rebuts any sin with direct opposition,[4] together with it here dries up its verdure.†  (source)
    rebuts = argues that something is not true
  • I had been listening and silently rebutting each sentence with my eyes closed; then there was a hush, which in an audience warns that something unplanned is happening.†  (source)
    rebutting = arguing that something is not true
  • She said this with a thudding finality that sealed off all channels of rebuttal.  (source)
    rebuttal = argument in opposition
  • She prevailed on every charge, and she prevailed because she could mount an argument that the Munich Philharmonic could not rebut.  (source)
    rebut = argue against
  • But it was Jaimie who made the scheme real in his calm rebuttals to the counterarguments.†  (source)
    rebuttals = arguments that refute other arguments
  • Illness was supremely human, Naphta immediately rebutted, because to be human was to be ill.†  (source)
    rebutted = argued that something is not true
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