How to Use argumentation in a Sentence

argumentation

noun

• He tried to use argumentation to convince his opponents, rather than force.
• Many people on the right hate her, of course, and not just for her skill in argumentation.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• Jolles pulls it off because his comedic skill set lends itself well to argumentation.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
• That’s a shock for some who haven’t heard that line of argumentation previously.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
• Because argumentation focused on specifics like sleep and soap, those were the examples laid out in the opinion.
  — Melissa Howell, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2019
• And there were plenty of subjects that remained off limits for argumentation.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• The second crowd, Leck says, are skeptics so unyielding they won't be swayed by any amount of argumentation.
  — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2010
• As befits a logical proof, Gödel’s argumentation was very abstract and high-level.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 May 2026
• There are lots of other pitfalls to clear reasoning in economic argumentation.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2017
• So while an amicus’s argumentation can be persuasive, its support for one party or the other carries little weight.
  — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
• Music is no stranger to argumentation and the tireless dance of human subjectivity.
  — Riordan Zentler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 June 2017
• More seriously, this line of argumentation is bizarre on scientific grounds.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2013
• The idea is that they are prodded into using generative AI for the overt purpose of argumentation.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
• Roberts, by their account, was deeply informed by his conservatism but also showed a willingness to be persuaded by legal argumentation.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
• That’s because a lecture series better lends itself to argumentation than storytelling.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• Here the book enters into a speculative moment of argumentation.
  — Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2017
• One purpose of debate is to challenge mainstream thinking by identifying unique angles of argumentation.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
• Historically, managers were picked for their legal experience, or for their skills of argumentation.
  — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
• The reader feels less and less interested in the narrative vicissitudes, and might well start glazing over in those passages of argumentation in which each thing is revealed to be its opposite.
  — Sven Birkerts, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
• Limit repetitive and excessive argumentation by moving to close debate and vote when everyone’s position has become clear.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• In the decade after Du Bois’ address, however, a second stage of modern argumentation about human groups emerged, one that placed a much greater emphasis on culture.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
• At the crossroads of many civilizations, in India diverse traditions have come into contact with each other and a spirit of debate and argumentation has arisen.
  — Iese Business School, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Through memorization, students begin to mimic the best that is in authors, employing their patterns of thought, lines of argumentation, and knowledge in their own thinking and academic work.
  — Daniel Buck, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
• Their argumentation can serve as a marker which points us to underlying economic and political conditions, but in and of itself argument does not move history.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2013
• In most cases, commenters bypassed argumentation for convenient name-calling or escalated a civil discussion by posting contextless claims with no links or source.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2020
• The hope is that the blind will lead the blind, in the sense that those that know nothing of substance on the AI topic will end up inadvertently goading others into equally vacuous argumentation.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• Ratings for grammar, vocabulary and argumentation were similar between groups.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Time, 20 Oct. 2017
• His characteristic brew of Yiddish jokes, brainy comics and incisive argumentation is a pleasure to read, even when the subjects are technical and mathematical.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
• Harris’s fervent argumentation sometimes feels repetitious or meandering, but conviction and research burn through the page and give coherence and urgency to a daunting subject.
  — Federico Perelmuter, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• The primary aim of each of the photographers is artistic, not argumentative or sociological, though in several cases argumentation comes in a close second.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021