How to Use rebuttal in a Sentence

rebuttal

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  • Now back to the rebuttal of the dissent found in the main opinion.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Likens, as a rebuttal, will tell them to turn on the Maryland game.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • One of the most pungent rebuttals of that view comes from Beard.
    — Zachary Karabell, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The deadline for the House’s rebuttal is noon on Tuesday.
    — Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
  • That will be followed by the defense's case, and then the state's rebuttal.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 May 2024
  • Bieber has yet to issue a rebuttal or comment on the size of his brain.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The hotel will be able to present a rebuttal at a board hearing set for Sept. 7.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The process had been largely the same for the Democratic rebuttal.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The unions have until next week to submit a rebuttal to the city’s response.
    — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 June 2017
  • There’s no rebuttal to this one: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That opened the door for a Cougars rebuttal in the final six minutes of the period.
    — Houston Chronicle, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The company is prepared to present its rebuttal to claims that may be in the book.
    — Kate Aurthur, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Earley had a rebuttal to it all, starting with the hair.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 18 May 2024
  • The defense will then put on its case, followed by the state's rebuttal.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 9 May 2024
  • Once the business responds, the consumer has the chance to respond with a rebuttal.
    — Cassie Cope, charlotteobserver, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Of course, here with a rebuttal is Groundskeeper Willie.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Mar. 2017
  • In the coming days, the DOJ will present its rebuttal to Google's arguments.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The White House, meanwhile, issued a lengthy rebuttal of Manchin’s claims.
    — Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The former student’s lawyers, in a rebuttal filed this week, are asking how that could be.
    — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The best ones are able to meet every rejection with a rebuttal of their own.
    — Nick Leighton, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • The ball’s now in Drizzy’s court with the rap world awaiting his rebuttal in what will be a pivotal moment in the boiling feud.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 May 2024
  • The defense’s rebuttal might be summed up as: Don’t believe your eyes.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The politician selected to give the partisan rebuttal to the State of the Union is seen as a rising star in the party.
    — Colby Itkowitz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The defense was to finish on Tuesday, with time for rebuttal by Greer.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The rebuttal to all this is that the Grammys don't matter, so who wins is not important.
    — Eliza Thompson, Seventeen, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Democrats drafted their own memo, which is said to be a point-by-point rebuttal to the Nunes document.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Jan. 2018
  • But a lot of what’s emerging in 2022 seems to be a rebuttal to two years of vegetation.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Commenters were quick to point out that this rebuttal was self-serving.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Or, as the release of their paperback nears, to write the sort of essay they were meant to be writing when their book originally came out — even if that essay is a rebuttal of this whole exercise.
    — Tajja Isen, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Each candidate will be given two minutes to answer a question from the moderators, and one minute to respond or offer a rebuttal.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 June 2024

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