Word Finder - argue

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To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.

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To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.

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He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.

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To have an argument, a quarrel.

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To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

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He argued his point.

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To prove.

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To accuse.

We didn't bother to argue with Quinn.

Let's not argue about it.

Whatever. I came out here to enjoy your company, not argue with you.

It was pointless to argue the matter.

If Katie wanted to go to the convent, he.d be the last to argue with her.

She looked ready to argue but obeyed.

She wasn't going to argue with him or bawl in his presence.

One would argue that energy costs will remain high.

They could argue like this all afternoon.

Let's not argue right now.

Now all you do is argue with me.

Who could argue there was ever a better time to start a business any time in the world?

Consequently, it made more sense to submit to Alex than argue with him.

She couldn't argue that point, but Alex might regain consciousness and she wanted to be there if he did.

When, however, the tariff bill of 1828, which was still more protective, came up for discussion, Webster had ceased to oppose protection; but he did not attempt to argue in favour of it.

Not giving him a chance to argue, she ducked through the ropes and leapt to the floor.

He didn't wait for her, and she paused a few times along the way to the food court to argue with Ashley via texts about talking to Xander.

Jackson would argue, "When all is said and done, if you handle them properly, you know they love it too."

Alex wasn't likely to be much help with the farm, but it wouldn't do any good to argue the point with Katie.

In the past, when the power of the state was absolute in many parts of the world, it was harder to argue that every person on the planet had rights no monarch or state could violate.

We have to argue back from the state cf things revealed in the texts, of various dates from 450-250 B.C., and in the inscriptions from that date onwards.

While the constitution was evolving in a manner which seemed to argue small political ability and no stability in the Florentines, the people had built up a wonderful commercial organization.

How far the Phoenicians had any effective control over it is unknown; the absence of their monuments does not argue much real jurisdiction.

You might argue that since there is now a surplus of labor in Chad's neighborhood, the price of labor is lowered and Chad will only find work paying $9.75 an hour.

Those who argue they should not say there is no way for poor countries to compete with mechanized Western farming and the extremely high yields it produces.

Instead, you have to find small things over which to argue, like whether the capital gains tax should be raised.

One might argue that manipulating the Future and unfettered access to the present provides more than enough influence.

You ran off and left me because you were sick of having me argue with you.

He needed her and she had done nothing but argue with him and make his life more complicated.

It is consistent with this view to argue the absolute parity of ministers and elders, conceding to all presbyters" equal right to teach, to rule, to administer the sacraments, to take part in the ordination of ministers, and to preside in church courts."The practice of the Presbyterian churches of the present day is in accord with the first-named theory.

He reached Moscow on the 15th of May, prepared "to lay down his life for the tsar," and at once proceeded to the head of the Red Staircase to meet and argue with the assembled stryeltsi, who had been instigated to rebel by the anti-Petrine faction.

Gerbert proceeds to argue that the church councils admitted the right of metropolitan synods to depose unworthy bishops, but contends that, even if an appeal to Rome were necessary, that appeal had been made a year before without effect.

Some might argue this is not in and of itself a force for peace.

And you may argue about that as you like!

Adults would argue with her if she told them she wasn't leaving her brother, Jonny's, side until he was healed.

The day was getting hot and it took too much energy to argue.

In the so-called Second Apology, Justin takes occasion from the trial of a Christian recently held in Rome to argue that the innocence of the Christians was proved by the very persecutions.

At the same time he did not argue for the complete abolition of the tests, but desired that they should be so framed as to make it possible for most Protestants conscientiously to subscribe to them.

No student of history would argue this point, regardless of his or her politics.

In the meantime we have proper names to argue from; and these give us at least the significant indication that the Hittite nominative ended in s and the accusative in m.

I do not argue.

I was juggling the groceries, listening to the kids argue about their games and then I saw your handwriting and all the stress just melted away.

She'd chosen a subject he couldn't argue about.

If he had left it at 'next time, take your phone', she would have felt compelled to argue.

As long as you stick to the things he has assigned to you, he has no reason to argue.

Unfortunately (perhaps) Butler prefers to argue on admitted principles; holds much of his own moral belief in reserve; tries to reduce everything to a question of probable fact.

All this, however, did not argue an intention on the part of the government to revert to the autocratic status quo.

The phrase, "devil's advocate," has by an easy transference come to be used of any one who puts himself up, or is put up, for the sake of promoting debate, to argue a case in which he does not necessarily believe.

The angry tyrant, unable to refute her arguments himself, sent for pagan scholars to argue with her, but they were discomfited.

He is led to argue that the creed of Antioch came rather from Cappadocia than Rome.