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- verb Present participle of
argue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
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Examples
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After standing in front of Boston Harbor, pledging to be "the environmental president" and promising to "confront the greenhouse effect with the White House effect," President Bush spent the first two years of his term arguing that no action on global warming was necessary or advisable until the completion of a major international scientific study of the problem then under way.
Archive 2006-04-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006
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Reuben was in the habit of what he called arguing things out by himself; and as he stood there, waiting for the verdict, he tried to put himself in the position of the jury; and he felt that, in that case, he should have difficulty in coming to a decision.
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What people are arguing is that the law was written in order to go after foreign trusts that are used as shelters and that generate income.
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What people are arguing is that the law was written in order to go after foreign trusts that are used as shelters and that generate income.
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There is something just completely absurd, at least to me, in arguing that the fact that his father reported him is some meaningless data point in the scheme of things.
Matthew Yglesias » Very Rare Terrorists Are Very Hard to Find 2009
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What people are arguing is that the law was written in order to go after foreign trusts that are used as shelters and that generate income.
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I did not come onto your blog and begin arguing with you, nor did I argue with you here.
Weblogs 2009
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Besides, at the end of the day when all our sniping and arguing is done, Rush Limbaugh is still Field & Stream's "Villain of the Year", and that just makes me smile ear-to-ear.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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What people are arguing is that the law was written in order to go after foreign trusts that are used as shelters and that generate income.
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Besides, at the end of the day when all our sniping and arguing is done, Rush Limbaugh is still Field & Stream's "Villain of the Year", and that just makes me smile ear-to-ear.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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