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Recent Examples of controversy Love, loss, and controversy Taylor’s third husband, producer Mike Todd, died in a 1958 plane crash. Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025 Instead, Belichick’s tenure with North Carolina was immediately marred in controversy surrounding both his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson, as well as his ongoing spat with his former New England Patriots team. Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025 Professional power Each of these controversies has focused on a specific legal, ethical or medical issue. Elizabeth Chiarello, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025 The controversy spotlighted the growing gap between rural and urban dwellers. Chris Sims, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for controversy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for controversy
Noun
  • The Palladinos departed after Season 6 due to contract disputes with WB, and David Rosenthal stepped in as showrunner and head writer.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The dispute occurred during a hearing on a Republican bill to ban public funds for health care for undocumented immigrants.
    Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That leaves places such as Apache County in limbo in a debate centered over keeping government fully operational at existing funding levels and revising health insurance coverage for poor and working-class Americans.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Long history of policy changes Police chases in Milwaukee have been a frequent topic of debate in the city, and the policy dictating them is intertwined with the city's reckless driving issues.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In May, Van Hecke was involved in an altercation in training with then-Brighton team-mate Joao Pedro.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Sanchez, 38, was involved in an altercation with the 69-year-old truck driver in the early-morning hours of Saturday, when police said the driver allegedly stabbed Sanchez while defending himself during a fight.
    Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to him, advances in machine learning have yanked questions once trapped inside theological/philosophical disputations into corporate board packs.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • An even more crucial disagreement is over the party’s relationship to electoral politics.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Other federal agencies have crafted similarly partisan messages from the typically apolitical civil service amid a legislative standoff largely over disagreements related to health care cuts.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hip-Hop has equally thrived on legendary quarrels and strong relationships.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • However, lovers’ quarrels or difficulty dealing with children (hissy fits or meltdowns) might occur.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • McNeill said one argument in favor of the EV sector continuing to grow is the vehicles’ increasing utility far beyond transportation.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Here's a look at both arguments.
    Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Congressional Democrats have not sought to change that, at least not in the current spending fight.
    Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The administration has also called out the arrest of Sortor, a 27-year-old conservative influencer, amid protests outside the ICE facility in Portland during what police characterized as a fight.
    Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Controversy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/controversy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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