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a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
they were involved in a violent argument
How To Use contestation In A Sentence
- The specific circumstances here are a bit murky, and will be subject to contestation.
- This has coincided with an increasing methodological interest in contestation, ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Without an independent media, the multiplicity of voices, whether in concert or contestation, are less likely to be heard, Jervis insisted.
- The ethics of writing about the private life of a public person has been one area of contestation. The Times Literary Supplement
- Rather, leaders are always immanent in political processes where power appears, retrospectively as it were, to illuminate the discursive field of contestation and its victors.
- Left alone, they would have evolved in unpredictable ways through local negotiation and contestation over the course of time and through the formation of a central state.
- It has encountered contestation and some debate.
- But ‘family values’, once a matter of stated political doctrine, have now receded from the realm of political contestation to become naturalized.
- The rest of it, the facticity, which is, obviously, under all kinds of contestation, she let that go. 'Strange Culture' May Grow on Film Fans
- The conflicting interests of the two regulatory projects led to interscalar contestation between the local and the national.