back up your claims, to support what you say with evidence or proof, face a challenge, to deal with a difficult situation, make light of something, to treat something as unimportant or joke about it, make no bones about, to say something clearly and openly, on the face of it, apparently / at first sight, take something seriously, to consider something important, make a case for, to give strong reasons in support of something, the bottom line is, the most important point is / in conclusion.

developing an argument

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