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take issue with

vb. To disagree with something, and to raise objections to it

Usage examples of "take issue with".

Wouldn't he still be around to take issue with an identical interloper?

It was part of the joy of reading for him, to have something to say himself, to talk back to, agree or take issue with, Rousseau, Condorcet, Turgot, Mary Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, or Joseph Priestley.

Partly because another faculty spouse at the table--a likable, harmless computerphile named Jon--decided to take issue with some of Kivistik's statements and was cheerfully shot down for his troubles.