How to Use contestation in a Sentence

contestation

noun
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  • The exact number of works made off with is the subject of contestation.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • There will be contestation around fossil-fuel leasing and projects; that’s not going to let up even now that the IRA has passed.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • This was before there was really a sense that his contestation of the election results would go for so long.
    — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
  • As a result the fish is not yet anywhere near U.S. dinner plates, caught up in a seemingly endless process of contestation, with no clear end in sight.
    — Tess Doezema, Slate Magazine, 26 Apr. 2017
  • That contestation led to mass death in places that, for many Americans, might as well be another planet.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 5 June 2020
  • Political teams are chosen, and the media both fuels and thrives on the contestation.
    — David W. Blight, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • In the era of MAGA, the forehead has become a site of sociocultural contestation.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The sum of it is that state security and police agencies have placed squarely at the centre of political contestations.
    — Moses Khisa, Quartz Africa, 21 June 2019
  • In a region where leaders brook little dissent, the country of 12 million became a place of free speech and political contestation.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • This contestation is manifested in the Native Land map.
    — Abby Levene, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Throughout the culture wars of the past half century, the syllabus has been a site of contestation, as reading lists were scrutinized for questions of diversity, inclusion, and how much canons had changed.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2020
  • However, in a democratic society, the use of state power is itself a matter of public contestation.
    — Fred Bauer, National Review, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Such contestation played out vividly in Shenzhen, where Deng is exalted for his role in transforming a sleepy seaside town into a high-tech metropolis.
    — Time, 16 June 2023
  • But taking this route is inevitably a recipe for contestation, protestation and even violent confrontation.
    — Moses Khisa, Quartz Africa, 21 June 2019
  • Though our media’s trajectory throughout the past century may seem like a series of expansions, each new development was a site of contestation.
    — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, anti-immigrant sentiment has caused growing contestation of their right to be in the city, pushing newcomers to eke out livelihoods in precarious situations.
    — Annette M. Kim, The Atlantic, 5 June 2018
  • The desire for an end to political contestation is a strong (and to some degree understandable) contemporary current.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Many policy issues fall outside the scope of public deliberation and contestation, which leaves parties with few ways to demonstrate responsiveness in the form of policy.
    — Didi Kuo, Vox, 20 June 2019
  • The report highlighted the Arctic as one such likely zone of major international contestation as its ice caps continue to melt, as well as new battles forming over water and waves of climate migrants being forced to leave their homes.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
  • As noted above, the Amazon is only the most visible arena of environmental contestation.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 7 July 2022
  • There is an unfortunate tendency in this book, and in liberal commentary in general, to overstate the uniqueness of the partisan contestation of election results in this country today.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Yet school bathrooms have always been sites of contestation, where prevailing cultural anxieties have been projected onto them.
    — J.y. Chua, The Atlantic, 2 June 2017
  • These essays together offer a thorough and sophisticated examination of the political change and contestation that has shaped the decade after the uprisings in 2011, from Algeria to Sudan.
    — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Third, a legitimate electoral process and outcome is central to political power contestation and periodic change of governments.
    — David E Kiwuwa, Quartz Africa, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The passionate rhetoric abandons any pretense to liberal ideals of reasoned deliberation and contestation within a shared constitutional framework.
    — Laura Field, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Withholding or providing resources to particular groups can harm vulnerable groups or lead to contestations that are socially destabilizing.
    — Nimi Hoffman, Quartz Africa, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Rebellion is an important part of everyday political contestation, and Jordanians have used it often and with surprising effectiveness.
    — Jillian Schwedler, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Each is preparing itself for strategic rivalry, building up military forces, and aligning partners for future economic, diplomatic, and potential military contestation.
    — John Culver; John Pomfret and Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2023
  • Elections are the quintessential arbiter of political contestation within democratic countries.
    — David E Kiwuwa, Quartz Africa, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Democracies have parliaments, judiciaries, parties, political contestation, civil societies, freedom of speech and assembly, and elections.
    — Alexander Motyl, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2022

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