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Recent Examples of contestation After the conclusion of one set of political contestations, new challenges emerge: after World War II came the Cold War, for example. Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025 After Germany occupied Norway in 1940 and Adolf Hitler’s troops invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Svalbard became a key point of military contestation. James Patton Rogers & Caroline Kennedy Pipe / Made By History , TIME, 23 Jan. 2025 What that does is take these decisions out of the space of democratic contestation. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025 His book outlines the dominance of white masculinity in presidential politics since the birth of our nation, and the ways in contestations over masculinity are evident in its most prominent political contests. Kelly Dittmar, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for contestation
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Noun
  • Book dispute is one of three religious rights cases The case is one of three religious rights cases the Supreme Court is deciding in the coming weeks, and appears likely to be part of a recent trend of the court siding with religious rights advocates.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Billing disputes, debt collections and other leading indicators of bankruptcy are also on the rise.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the controversy, for the Hilton, that doesn't change the imperative to serve.
    Major Garrett, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Now, with the controversy behind him, Benn has the opportunity to finally face Eubank in the ring.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Seven decades later, this culture of disputation emerged as a central theme in Timothy Garton Ash’s The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness report on the Eastern European revolutions of 1989.
    Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
Noun
  • In the original post, unlike the current debate, the user set the scene and provided some constraints.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • This seeming contradiction can be understood when the executive order is viewed against the backdrop of current education policy debates.
    F. Chris Curran, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Leaders who create space for disagreement without judgment build greater trust, psychological safety and strategic cohesion.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In video shared by The Associated Press, Grassley faces a room of Iowans who are at times shouting in disagreement about some of the Trump administration's policies.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Contestation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contestation. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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