as in dispute
variance of opinion on a matter
the statement is certainly open to contestation among reasonable people
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Recent Examples of contestation
Although Putin would likely win a fair election in 2024, an unmanaged election would foster genuine political contestation and criticism of the president, which the Kremlin had long been keeping off-limits.
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Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine are all likely to achieve varying levels of integration into Western institutions but will remain places of contestation.
—Max Bergmann, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2024
This border contestation, mixed with Islamabad’s fears of Kabul backing Pashtun nationalist causes within Pakistan, has long undermined the trust between the two countries.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
The country’s recent poll should be viewed in the context of flawed democracies that go through the motions of political contestation without fully embracing freedom, fairness, and transparency.
—David E Kiwuwa, Quartz Africa, 4 Nov. 2020
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Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine are all likely to achieve varying levels of integration into Western institutions but will remain places of contestation.
—Max Bergmann, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2024
This border contestation, mixed with Islamabad’s fears of Kabul backing Pashtun nationalist causes within Pakistan, has long undermined the trust between the two countries.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
The country’s recent poll should be viewed in the context of flawed democracies that go through the motions of political contestation without fully embracing freedom, fairness, and transparency.
—David E Kiwuwa, Quartz Africa, 4 Nov. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contestation
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Nearly a decade later, a dark storm cloud has descended upon his increasingly unpopular administration, with the resignation of a top Cabinet minister over a dispute about how to manage US president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.Lex Harvey, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Research has distinguished between three simple strategies to deal with neighbor disputes: avoidance of the party whose behavior is experienced as unneighborly; confronting the neighbor face-to-face; and relying on a third party to sort out the issue, e.g. the landlord or even police.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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The controversy began after negotiations over the 2025 agreements failed, prompting the teams to file their legal dispute on October 2, 2024, in the Western District of North Carolina.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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Welcome to the heated and ongoing controversy about this weighty matter.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
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And yet there is one aspect of the book which was notable: a disputation of the Richard Wrangham's work in Demonic Males.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2013
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But now, the TV has trained us to see everything as sports: dating shows, presidential debates, battlefield yards won and lost.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The debate underscores an ongoing conversation about proper hair care.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Event Highlights: Better Workplaces: How to Foster Inclusion and Civility By Aman Kidwai Workplaces Editor 1 The latest episode of Newsweek's Horizons podcast explores the challenge of rising political disagreement in the workplace.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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There is some disagreement in the scientific community over the question of how climate change will affect plant health and groundwater availability across a variety of biomes, with competing models and approaches providing different answers.Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Contestation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contestation. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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