[ US /ˈɑɹɡju/ ]
[ UK /ˈɑːɡjuː/ ]
VERB
  1. present reasons and arguments
  2. give evidence of
    The evidence argues for your claim
    The results indicate the need for more work
  3. have an argument about something
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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.
  • 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)
  • I would argue that this "mire" in which we have so willingly immersed ourselves results from our refusal to use labels. What is an Atheist?
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