argue
verb (used without object)
to present reasons for or against a thing.
has argued
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present perfectof argue (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Warsh has argued for years that the Fed shouldn’t tell markets what would prompt its next move, and he told the audience in Wyoming he was committed to a discipline rather than a decision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Penrose has argued that quantum mechanics could eventually break down when sufficiently massive objects remain in quantum superpositions for long enough periods.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Feldstein Soto has argued the city’s payouts were inflated by a “cascade of horrible” cases that were pending when she took office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
In addition to building roads, causeways, canals, dikes, reservoirs, mounds, raised agricultural fields, and possibly ball courts, Erickson has argued, the Indians who lived there before Columbus trapped fish in the seasonally flooded grassland.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
