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Recent Examples of disputation 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 By taking steps to remember that politics always involves disputation, even among those who vote for the same candidates and affiliate with the same party, Americans may begin to rediscover the ability to respectfully disagree with opponents. Robert B. Talisse, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2022 Abstruse disputation is hardly unknown but argument has reached a new level with threats of lawsuits and charges of snobbish bigotry and snowflake naïveté. Ethan Bronner, Bloomberg.com, 29 Sep. 2020 See All Example Sentences for disputation
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Noun
  • Arenas has since said the dispute started over a game of bourré.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The dispute has largely remained peaceful so far.
    Omar S Mahmood, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has earned a reputation as a hardliner on immigration, an image that helped propel her to power amid rising nationalist sentiment and debate over Japan’s identity amid demographic decline.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • As in years past, there was plenty of heated debate, some clever campaigning on social media, a last-minute push for votes from A-list significant others and a few races that were neck-and-neck right up until the last ballot was cast.
    Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Legendary rapper Jay-Z came out in defense of Bad Bunny amid controversy over the Puerto Rican recording artist being tapped to perform at the Super Bowl LX halftime show.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Succeeding on OnlyFans in 2025 often means having a high tolerance for controversy, negative attention, the willingness to troll, and an ability to flip tsunamis of online haters into fans.
    Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The dispute could affect billions of dollars in cross-border trade and set a new precedent for handling disagreements over the use of public figures and historic addresses in political messaging.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The sentiment is consistent across political party affiliations, with 75% of Republicans, 82% of Independents and 79% of Democrats expressing disagreement.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Disputation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disputation. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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