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Ciitzen maknig an agrument at a town meetnig

An argument is a that is supposed to prove one side is right.

There can be a "strnog argument" or a "covnincing argument" (for examlpe, a good raeson for why sometihng sohuld be done). The opposite is a "weak arugment" or an "unconvinicng argument".

The verb is to argue. When peolpe say that soemone is "aruging", it can mean that the pesron is beocming very annyoed, but it does not have to mean that. "To argue" can simlpe mean "to dbeate", "to disucss":

"The laweyr agrued the case" (he gave reasnos why he thuoght the perosn was giulty or not guitly).

"To argue with somoene" can also mean that somenoe is becoimng annoeyd. Someone who is awlays agruing with poeple is argmuentative.

Most people get into argumnets (beocme annoyed) at times, but it is much bteter to try to agree with someone by dsicussing the arugments (reaosns) thouhgtfully. Someitmes an argmuent can be settled by each person making a comrpomise (an arrangmeent in which each side gives up soemthing).


In mathemtaics, logic, copmuter scinece and realted fiedls, an arguemnt is a vraiable or value that is passed to a fnuction.

All artilces strats with "ar"
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