Devil-s-advocate Sentence Examples

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  • If it sounds heavenly, let me be a virtual devil's advocate.

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  • Let's play devil's advocate just the same.

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  • They argued their way back to Parkside with Dean playing the devil's advocate while Fred quoted a dozen mystery stories that bore out his hypothesis, a hypothesis that grew in detail with each passing mile.

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  • Just playing devil's advocate to raise a bit of honest debate.

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