Sentence example with the word 'rebuttal'

rebuttal

answer, confutation, controversion, counterstatement, denial, negation, overthrowal, refutal, response, standing against, undercurrent

Definition n. the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument

Last update: August 1, 2015


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Since the defense attorney did not have a rebuttal to the prosecutor’s statement, he was unable to make the jury believe his client’s alibi.   [Please select]

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A rebuttal witness was called to contradict the testimony of the prosecutor’s key witness.    [Please select]

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Secondly we have this dialectical " induction as to particulars by grouping of similars whose liability to rebuttal by an exception has been already noted in connexion with the limits of dialectic. This is the incomplete induction by simple enumeration which has so often been laughed to scorn.   [Please select]

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The neighborhood extracted considerable eager conversation from it; argument, rebuttal, suspicion, certainty, retrospect, and prophecy.   [Please select]

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In the rebuttal, when engineers seated in the auditorium rose to confound him with questions--engineers representing rival turbine concerns--he proved himself quick at the bat and more than once confounded those who would confound him.   [Please select]

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The story goes that it so offended a modern plutocrat that he offered a reward of $10,000 to any one who could write an equally good poem in rebuttal.   [Please select]

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