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US
/ˈɑɹɡju/
]
[ UK /ˈɑːɡjuː/ ]
[ UK /ˈɑːɡjuː/ ]
VERB
- present reasons and arguments
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give evidence of
The evidence argues for your claim
The results indicate the need for more work - have an argument about something
How To Use argue In A Sentence
- Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
- Absorbing throughout, her film is troubling, well-illustrated and cogently argued. Times, Sunday Times
- One could argue that such a missile defence system would bring about the abandonment of ballistic missiles as strategic weapons.
- “Jill, someone who is cisgendered has an interpersonal sense or understanding of their gender and genitals that match or correspond (or what some might argue a “normative” state).” Third-Gendering « Bound, Not Gagged
- He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
- Critics argue it was only Lottery money and government cash that prevented the Games from being a financial disaster.
- The architectonics of the sculpted locks, the author argues, augment their power to fend off sorcery and other malevolent forces.
- Instead, they've argued, companies are more like biological organisms - living things that learn, evolve, and eventually die.
- And because tools were indispensable, they argued that capital was indispensable. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
- Drake, in his _Eboracum_, says (p. 7, Appendix), "I have been so frightened with stories of the barguest when I was a child, that I cannot help throwing away an etymology upon it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)