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as in dispute
an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions
the seemingly imperishable controversy over the teaching of evolution
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as in debate
variance of opinion on a matter
there is considerable controversy regarding the assassination of President Kennedy
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Recent Examples of controversy
Musk and Trump had dinner together at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago home Wednesday evening, seemingly unfazed by the controversy.
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Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
The controversy follows a lawsuit filed last month by two female students at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, alleging that a trans girl had ousted them from coveted spots on the cross-country team.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
After some internet controversy over the decision to cast Park Sung-hoon, a cis man, as a trans woman in the forthcoming season of Squid Game, series creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk has spoken out.
—James Factora, Them, 18 Dec. 2024
Per the Financial Times, the Labor administration today launched a review of how AI companies train their technology by scraping digital content—a process that has already courted controversy among creators in the UK and US.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
The controversy follows a lawsuit filed last month by two female students at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, alleging that a trans girl had ousted them from coveted spots on the cross-country team.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
After some internet controversy over the decision to cast Park Sung-hoon, a cis man, as a trans woman in the forthcoming season of Squid Game, series creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk has spoken out.
—James Factora, Them, 18 Dec. 2024
Per the Financial Times, the Labor administration today launched a review of how AI companies train their technology by scraping digital content—a process that has already courted controversy among creators in the UK and US.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for controversy
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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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El Salvador’s audacious decision in 2021 to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender and establish a national Bitcoin reserve ignited a global debate on the future of reserve assets.Sean Lee, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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The case became a flashpoint in debates over safety, homelessness and mental illness on the system.Cedar Attanasio, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Jamie Foxx is thanking fans for their support after an altercation at his birthday dinner this weekend required him to get stitches.Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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Things got worse for Curtis, who was arrested and charged with assault because of his altercation with assistant DA Daniels.Barry Levitt, TIME, 11 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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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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That’s the main quarrel of opponents of such conservation projects.Christine Ro, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Experts at the conference floated the possibility that the aquatic quarrel could make its way to the Supreme Court, though that’s viewed as a crisis that should be averted.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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At one point, Gi-Hun and the Front Man get into an argument about whether the game reflects the worst aspects of modern life, or is contributing to making things worse.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
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Sargeant allegedly slashed the man across his left wrist following an argument.Stepheny Price, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
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This debate is over trucks, but another fight is coming.Camila Domonoske, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
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Reclaiming Cultural Relevance In a world where Chinese rivals and domestic brands like Daihatsu Motor and Hino Motors are gaining ground, the Honda-Nissan merger represents a fight to reclaim cultural relevance and popularity.Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Controversy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/controversy. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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