Sample Sentences for
rebuttal
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    She said this with a thudding finality that sealed off all channels of rebuttal.  (source)
    rebuttal = argument in opposition
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    "Rebuttal?" the judge, sounding bored, asked in my direction.  (source)
    Rebuttal = argument against (something)
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    She continued with her rebuttal to the very idea that Walter would need an alibi, which seemed to generate support among the crowd.  (source)
    rebuttal = argument in opposition
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    "YES!" was Patrick's rebuttal.  (source)
    rebuttal = argument in opposition
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    "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
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    But it was Jaimie who made the scheme real in his calm rebuttals to the counterarguments.†  (source)
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    Illness was supremely human, Naphta immediately rebutted, because to be human was to be ill.†  (source)
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    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)
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    She had my mom, who was now dead, and me—and our main form of conversation was attack and rebuttal.  (source)
    rebuttal = argument in opposition
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    Well informed and a very skilled debater, Beck made hash out of my fumbling avowal, and I lacked the wherewithal to rebut him.  (source)
    rebut = argue against
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    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)
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    This was rebutted by a long series of beeps, punctuated only by the audience making oooohhhhh noises.†  (source)
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    I shall call rebutting evidence to prove up to the hilt that the hidden hand is again at its old game.†  (source)
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