COUNTERARGUMENT Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

counterargument

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Definition of counterargument

as in rebuttal

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Recent Examples of counterargument The counterargument is that AMD has included TSME in its consumer Ryzen CPUs for about a decade. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 22 June 2026 The macro backdrop isn't offering much of a counterargument. — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 5 June 2026 Rather than prompting examination of the systems in which those outcomes occur, a common counterargument is that attention to diversity risks lowering standards or excusing poor performance. — Vanessa Grubbs, STAT, 1 June 2026 Clients often benefit from attorneys who can anticipate opposing arguments and prepare counterarguments early. — William Jones, USA Today, 21 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for counterargument

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Noun

Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco kicked off Thursday’s press conference with a strongly fiery rebuttal of the cut as well as a promise to challenge it in the courts.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 July 2026
Now the company’s two original founders are betting on TELO, an EV startup with an aesthetic rebuttal to Tesla’s brutalist Cybertruck swagger.

— Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of rebuttal

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The streak did not continue in 2025, but the season turned out to be a more defiant refutation of the caution against rookie tight ends.

— John Riker, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Since Socrates, dialectical thinking had been a method of eliciting truth through questioning and refutation.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Definition of refutation

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Ranalli points out that indoctrination is when someone preemptively dismisses any counterevidence that may come along.

— Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 4 Mar. 2026
Other scientists point to a mountain of counterevidence showing that facial movements during emotions vary too widely to be universal beacons of emotional meaning.

— Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022

Definition of counterevidence

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