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- noun Plural form of
riposte .
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Examples
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By Thursday, however, that question was less interesting than the choice language the sides were using to make their points in dueling ripostes.
Ellison Stirs the Pot Over H-P Deal Ben Worthen 2011
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A sequence of postings deleted as they were better managed as personal ripostes using the PM function.
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You can call it what ever you like, I call it influence peddling … you spent 15 years on K Street and that's going to be a problem, ripostes Romney.
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A sequence of postings deleted as they were better managed as personal ripostes using the PM function.
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Their impact on their fellow countrymen is not easily gauged but the oblique ripostes made in the official press and on Tirana Radio give some indication that they are not talking to themselves.
From the archive, 11 January 1967: Albania on the blink 2012
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A sequence of postings deleted as they were better managed as personal ripostes using the PM function.
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A sequence of postings deleted as they were better managed as personal ripostes using the PM function.
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I remember a little book arrived in the office; its title escapes me, but it was smart ripostes for at-home mothers to give to career women who looked down on them.
Come back 'Superwoman': the lost ideal of combining motherhood and work 2011
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A sequence of postings deleted as they were better managed as personal ripostes using the PM function.
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Trouble is one of his best outings, cheerily touting the marvels of sex and riches, while saturating us with rarefied atmosphere, snappy dialogue and witty ripostes If you like your chuckles with a touch of class, then here's your movie.
John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch' John Farr 2011
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