Lead-in to a counterargument (3)

I believe the answer is:

yet

(Other definitions for yet that I've seen before include "'But, however (3)'" , "in spite of that" , "Still, so far" , "Still, even" , "Up to the present time" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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