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Recent Examples of disputatious What could unite this bustling, disputatious new country? John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 In other words, students prepare for citizenship in a disputatious society by practicing the civic arts—by asserting and advocating for their views—not by meekly absorbing lessons from their instructors. Christopher L. Eisgruber, Time, 9 Oct. 2025 The potential for sharp, disputatious cultural criticism has arguably slackened. David Remnick, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025 The film shows the occasionally disputatious relationship between Marvin and her grandparents, who raised her. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025 Hoback followed Back to a Bitcoin conference in Riga, Latvia, where Back introduced him to one of his younger protégés, a prominent if disputatious Bitcoin developer named Peter Todd. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024 This disputatious sociopolitical drama is cunningly packaged as a romantic comedy. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disputatious
Adjective
  • The incident comes amid growing scrutiny of the aggressive tactics used by Border Patrol and ICE, including against US citizens.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Chiefs were again aggressive on fourth down — and successful at stopping them, too.
    Scott Chasen, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • As my colleague Sam McDowell noted last month, the Chiefs’ have a short-yardage play that’s more effective than the Eagles’ controversial Tush Push.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Mamdani initially tried to stay on-message, offering a quick disavowal of an unsavory association or controversial past statement and pivoting back his agenda.
    Ben Adler, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Sia's contentious divorce just reached a whole new level of acrimony.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Before the vote, Mueller engaged in a contentious exchange with Canepa over the appointment route.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Israel says the militant group can access the remains of most of the hostages.
    Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Israel launched its war on Hamas after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks in which the militant group and its allies killed more than 1,200 people and took 251 hostages to Gaza.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Heading into a hostile environment at the Rogers Centre, the Dodgers must defeat the Toronto Blue Jays in Games 6 and 7 to clinch their second-straight World Series title.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Plot details are very hazy, but the word on the street is that the story centers on a ne’er-do-well smuggler who finds himself in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in him surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries and thirsty sharks alike.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • All arms come from coal and steel and integrated industries would stop Europe’s most quarrelsome countries waging war on one another.
    Sara Stridsberg September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • How did Marlowe find the space in his head, let alone in his days and nights, to compose his quarrelsome works, aiming them so squarely at the heavens and the gut?
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Most cases clear up on their own without complications, but parents should contact a doctor if a child cannot keep fluids down, has a high fever lasting more than a few days or seems unusually drowsy or irritable.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Also known as irritable hip, the condition is due to inflammation of the hip joint lining.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That individual brilliance which can produce a moment of magic to break open a stubborn defence is harder to come by.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Be sure to pay extra attention to stubborn stains.
    Jennifer Beck Goldblatt, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Disputatious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disputatious. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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