How to Use rebuttal in a Sentence

rebuttal

noun
  • There are lots of good rebuttals to this craven move.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • So, yeah, that was my rebuttal.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Bieber has yet to issue a rebuttal or comment on the size of his brain.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Now back to the rebuttal of the dissent found in the main opinion.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • One of the most pungent rebuttals of that view comes from Beard.
    — Zachary Karabell, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Likens, as a rebuttal, will tell them to turn on the Maryland game.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The defense will then put on its case, followed by the state's rebuttal.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 9 May 2024
  • Commenters were quick to point out that this rebuttal was self-serving.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 23 Apr. 2020
  • That will be followed by the defense's case, and then the state's rebuttal.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 May 2024
  • Cincinnati would be armed with rebuttals.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The best ones are able to meet every rejection with a rebuttal of their own.
    — Nick Leighton, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • The company is prepared to present its rebuttal to claims that may be in the book.
    — Kate Aurthur, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The next step is to write down some rebuttals to your inner dialogue.
    — Alex Koller, CNBC, 26 July 2024
  • The unions have until next week to submit a rebuttal to the city’s response.
    — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 June 2017
  • The former student’s lawyers, in a rebuttal filed this week, are asking how that could be.
    — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Prasad’s claim provoked a rapid series of rebuttals.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Some of the most charming moments are when somebody has added a rebuttal to something.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But in the weeks ahead, expect the league to file a rebuttal raising several points.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Once the business responds, the consumer has the chance to respond with a rebuttal.
    — Cassie Cope, charlotteobserver, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Now, a spate of new research released in the last few months offers some of the strongest rebuttals to date.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
  • For the long-armed New York Knicks forward, there was no rebuttal.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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 the remark was tucked into a 15-second rebuttal and died there.
    — Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The process had been largely the same for the Democratic rebuttal.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • That opened the door for a Cougars rebuttal in the final six minutes of the period.
    — Houston Chronicle, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The standard rebuttal is that this is temporary.
    — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The rebuttal to all this is that the Grammys don't matter, so who wins is not important.
    — Eliza Thompson, Seventeen, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The person who drafted the team then had to say why that team would win it all this year, with the other offering a rebuttal.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The defense was to finish on Tuesday, with time for rebuttal by Greer.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The filing is the State’s first full rebuttal to Murdaugh’s bid for a new trial.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025

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