Sample Sentences forcounterargument (editor-reviewed)
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When I listened to her speech I agreed with her, but then I heard his counterargument and now I'm leaning towards his position.counterargument = persuasive reasoning offered in opposition to other reasoning
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Keep an open mind until you've heard counterarguments.
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While he struggled to find a counterargument, Ron spoke up, evidently following his own train of thought. (source)
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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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For each solution he identified, the vyes proposed a counterargument.† (source)
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Luma's counterargument was simple.† (source)
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My counterarguments accomplish nothing other than to add a few more gray hairs to my balding head.† (source)
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She had struck at his very core, and he had no counterarguments with which to defend himself, for her questions and observations were the very ones he directed at himself.† (source)
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If need be, I can do without your counterarguments—I am quite familiar with the political ideology of the bourgeoisie.† (source)
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Where we are opposed, as we surely will be, this must be the basis of all our counterarguments. (source)counterarguments = persuasive reasoning offered in opposition to other reasoning
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Luma presented the counterarguments: It would take the boys ten days to get players and hold tryouts, by which time they would have had to forfeit two games—their season would be shot.† (source)
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They glared at each other; Harry knew that he had not convinced Hermione and that she was marshaling counterarguments, against both his theory on his wand and the fact that he was permitting himself to see into Voldemort's mind. (source)
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