variants
or counter-arguments
as in rebuttals
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rebuttals
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When Democrats came out swinging, Kennedy became more defiant, even at times screaming his rebuttals — though some of them didn’t align with the facts.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026 -
Meanwhile, Livesey’s arguments have been met with respectful—and, to this amateur reader, persuasive—rebuttals by several fellow-scholars, most formidably by Fredriksen and Walsh.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Counterarguments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterarguments. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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