How to Use contestation in a Sentence

contestation

noun

• The exact number of works made off with is the subject of contestation.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• What that does is take these decisions out of the space of democratic contestation.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
• This was before there was really a sense that his contestation of the election results would go for so long.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
• That contestation led to mass death in places that, for many Americans, might as well be another planet.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 5 June 2020
• Political teams are chosen, and the media both fuels and thrives on the contestation.
  — David W. Blight, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
• Elections continue but are stripped of genuine contestation.
  — Alejandro Reyes, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
• There will be contestation around fossil-fuel leasing and projects; that’s not going to let up even now that the IRA has passed.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• The sum of it is that state security and police agencies have placed squarely at the centre of political contestations.
  — Moses Khisa, Quartz Africa, 21 June 2019
• But taking this route is inevitably a recipe for contestation, protestation and even violent confrontation.
  — Moses Khisa, Quartz Africa, 21 June 2019
• What supplies all these events with a sense of approaching a precipice is the open contestation between pro- and anti-democratic forces, happening both here and abroad, in view of each other.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
• In a region where leaders brook little dissent, the country of 12 million became a place of free speech and political contestation.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Yet school bathrooms have always been sites of contestation, where prevailing cultural anxieties have been projected onto them.
  — J.y. Chua, The Atlantic, 2 June 2017
• Though our media’s trajectory throughout the past century may seem like a series of expansions, each new development was a site of contestation.
  — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
• Amid all of these current regional trends of crises and contestation, the United States’ own strategic goals have remained remarkably unclear.
  — Ioana Emy Matesan, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
• The desire for an end to political contestation is a strong (and to some degree understandable) contemporary current.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• Such developments would narrow the existing channels for contestation or close some off, making a return to democracy more difficult.
  — Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025
• Such contestation played out vividly in Shenzhen, where Deng is exalted for his role in transforming a sleepy seaside town into a high-tech metropolis.
  — Time, 16 June 2023
• Throughout the culture wars of the past half century, the syllabus has been a site of contestation, as reading lists were scrutinized for questions of diversity, inclusion, and how much canons had changed.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2020
• As noted above, the Amazon is only the most visible arena of environmental contestation.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 7 July 2022
• In the era of MAGA, the forehead has become a site of sociocultural contestation.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
• At the same time, anti-immigrant sentiment has caused growing contestation of their right to be in the city, pushing newcomers to eke out livelihoods in precarious situations.
  — Annette M. Kim, The Atlantic, 5 June 2018
• Many policy issues fall outside the scope of public deliberation and contestation, which leaves parties with few ways to demonstrate responsiveness in the form of policy.
  — Didi Kuo, Vox, 20 June 2019
• 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
• Competition itself is creating new arenas of contestation, driving countries and companies to push the boundaries of innovation.
  — Jared Cohen, Time, 18 Feb. 2026
• Third, a legitimate electoral process and outcome is central to political power contestation and periodic change of governments.
  — David E Kiwuwa, Quartz Africa, 4 Nov. 2020
• There is an unfortunate tendency in this book, and in liberal commentary in general, to overstate the uniqueness of the partisan contestation of election results in this country today.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
• That makes some of these contestations existential, particularly for smaller combatants.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 Jan. 2026
• Withholding or providing resources to particular groups can harm vulnerable groups or lead to contestations that are socially destabilizing.
  — Nimi Hoffman, Quartz Africa, 11 Dec. 2019
• Indeed, the existence of avenues for contestation is in the very nature of competitive authoritarianism.
  — Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025
• The report highlighted the Arctic as one such likely zone of major international contestation as its ice caps continue to melt, as well as new battles forming over water and waves of climate migrants being forced to leave their homes.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021