Using "contentious" in a sentence

The authority standoff, and resulting attempt to oust the House's chief clerk, foreshadow what could be an especially contentious legislative session in 2023.
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Among other concerning metrics, the company reported a significant slowdown in new domestic subscriptions for flagship streaming service Disney+ after entering into the contentious political battle.
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Screenshot via Wikipedia In recent years, cookies have been the subject of contentious legislation in both California and the European Union, where lawmakers have sought to curtail websites’ ability to collect visitor data.
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Trump endorsed Oz during the contentious Republican primary, effectively pulling through a brutal primary and narrowly into the general election.
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The contentious one is at center-back, where I think Berhalter will remember the trouble caused by big Welshman Kieffer Moore, and opt for Cameron Carter-Vickers to better handle Cody Gakpo.
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The move came amid months of contentious debate over the future of the fire district, which employs a small leadership staff but primarily relies on a volunteer firefighting force.
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Mississippi Today revealed last month that Brad Pigott, an attorney closely investigating the volleyball payment for the state welfare agency, was fired in contentious circumstances, resulting in the postponement of planned depositions, including Favre’s.
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While John has been releasing new music in the past few years — including the 16-track 2021 album "The Lockdown Sessions" — the song represents Spear's first new music since her 2016 album "Glory" and her first offering since the ending of her contentious conservatorship.
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Hulu will take political ads on contentious issues after a social media outcry Streaming service Hulu is now allowing political ad buyers to address issues like abortion rights and gun control.
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Back in Action feels like the heir apparent to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? With a whip-smart meta take on Hollywood and Looney Tunes lore alike, it centers its emotional arc around the long-contentious relationship between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
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They divorced in 2007 after a contentious public breakup.
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Despite the contentious nature of events, libraries have shown discrepancies in content allowed in their scholarly halls - with 50 recently banning Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron's  new Christian Children's book due to its dealing with religion.
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Episodes that might have been fruitfully dramatized, such as Jackson’s tempestuous second marriage or her contentious dealings with producers, are mentioned in passing.
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When You Finish Saving the World Clip via A24 Jesse Eisenberg makes his directorial debut with this comedy-drama starring Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as mother and son with a contentious relationship.
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Musk also is in a contentious process to acquire Twitter Inc.
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After a contentious legal battle, Musk in October offered to buy Twitter again and the deal was closed for $44 billion.
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ADVERTISEMENTArticle continues below this adDIVE DEEPERMartina Navratilova’s Sardonic Swipe at Billionaire Elon Musk Over Sir Elton John’s Latest Twitter Move3 days agoNavratilova thinks Musk is destroying TwitterNavratilova has been critical of Musk lately for his contentious statements.
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And according to that outlet, Jenkins’ contentious relationship wasn’t with DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran.
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And when that moment of crisis arrives, AI will become truly controversial, similar to the way that social media has become a flashpoint for contentious arguments over personal freedom, corporate responsibility, free markets, and government regulation.
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After three contentious years, the Congressional Ways and Means Committee can finally get its hands on former President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
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Internationally, a war is raging, and in the US, politics have been as contentious as ever.
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State Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall’s protest last week came amid ongoing and often contentious national debates over free speech on college campuses, what’s taught in college and in K-12 classrooms and what materials and programs libraries should provide.
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He signed it, after contentious negotiations, and was traded to the Dodgers a year later.
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And Murphy agrees, noting that the origin of subduction is a contentious topic within geology and that many researchers argue that it got a later start.
Source: Scientific American

Calypso Sub Aqua Club, one of Malta’s main diving clubs, highlighted the point that the court verdict “has been considered by many local and international divers debating in international forums as possibly creating a contentious legal precedent in terms of divers’ responsibility when diving using the buddy system”.
Source: Eurogamer.net

" Kosovar and Serbian officials have increasingly engaged in heated rhetoric in recent days, despite the postponement of contentious municipal elections that angered ethnic Serbs and international efforts to broker a deal to ease tensions over the dispute over license plates.
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The couple have, however, received unexpected PR support for their contentious case that the royal family struggled with issues around race when Lady Susan Hussey, a longstanding aide to the late queen, resigned this week after she questioned the charity founder Ngozi Fulani at a palace reception about where she was “really from”.
Source: The Guardian

After a contentious legal battle, Musk in October offered to buy Twitter again and the deal was closed for $44 billion.
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Troubled biodiversity plan gets billion-dollar funding boost One key contentious issue is how to finance biodiversity conservation, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, which are home to much of the world’s biodiversity.
Source: Nature.com

The talks could become contentious with new union leaders who want to take a more confrontational stance.
Source: The Jerusalem Post

ByRachel Fobar andDina Fine MaronPublished November 30, 2022• 9 min readPanama City, PanamaSharks, reptiles, and songbirds were among the hundreds of species that received new or increased global protections at a contentious two-week summit on the international wildlife trade.
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But what people find most contentious is Final Fantasy XIII’s structure.
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Reporter’s NotebookThe latest season of the Netflix drama depicts Charles’s contentious divorce from Diana, but in Britain, several prominent figures and the news media have rallied behind him.
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Bankman-Fried denied the story in a message with CNBC and said, “Partnerships were an area that was more contentious and on the margin I originally was in favor and ultimately started pushing back on new ones.
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Tornado Cash continues to be a contentious topic and one of its developers, Alexey Pertsev, controversially remains in detention in the Netherlands while investigators look to build a case against the Russian developer and his alleged role in the mixer’s operation.
Source: Cointelegraph

The GOP is set to enter the new Congress with control of 222 seats, setting up a contentious House speaker race.
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Near the end of their report, the outside experts excoriated the DOE: “A mediated settlement of the issue and claims at a much earlier time would have been preferable by far to the contentious stand-off of the past eight years.
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Insulin Prices: The issue is nowhere near as contentious as just about everything else raised in the race.
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But after the contentious release of Diablo Immortal, a game packed to the gills with power-bestowing microtransactions, there was only one question on fans’ minds: How, exactly, would Diablo IV be monetized? These days, that’s not a strange question to ask about a full-priced title like Diablo IV.
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[9] Girkin detailed his multiple and unsuccessful efforts to register and join various units and contentious interactions with Russian and Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) commanders and noted that he finally joined a DNR battalion illegally, which allowed him to deploy to the Svatove area in Luhansk Oblast.
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In 1978, it put up a picket line that lasted less than a day at the tail end of the paper's press operators' lengthy and contentious strike.
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With the two countries increasingly closely tied and with trade such a contentious issue in the Belt and Road Initiative era, Indian publications have already implied that Ibrahim’s premiership ought to include closer economic linkages and political cooperation between India and Malaysia.
Source: Foreign Policy

“There’s nothing called Israel, it’s only Palestine, and you just took the land from them,” one fan told an Israeli reporter in a contentious exchange.
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Charnas’ book, Dilla Time, is a fascinating, immersive look at Dilla’s impact both during his lifetime and beyond: the producer’s relationships and upbringing, his musical interventions, and the contentious dispute over who gets to control his posthumous legacy.
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“I kind of realized that being a brown person who is birding and walking around, sometimes that might be contentious and I’ve certainly had my moments of that,” Jorge said.
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Fresh off helping Zack Efron on the Greatest Beer Run Ever and putting in a somewhat contentious performance as Zeus in Taiki Waititi’s new Marvel flick Thor: Love and Thunder, Aussie favourite Russell Crowe is returning to the small screen.
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And contentious for whom is the question for me.
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, to help resolve a contentious trade issue with a U.
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With this mix of contentious auction jockeying peppered in between bouts of intense strategic management, Power Grid ends up providing a ton of excitement and tense moments—more than you might expect from a game where a phase in each turn is called “Bureaucracy.
Source: The New York Times

To just as many others, the way their music threads the needle between two contentious genres — stadium-rousing nu-metal and throaty modern hard rock — makes them an easy target for criticism.
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His tenure included contentious public uproar revolving around whether students should be masked to help protect from the virus, remote learning, deep teacher and substitute teacher shortages and many other related issues.
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Kosovar and Serbian officials have increasingly engaged in heated rhetoric in recent days despite the postponement of contentious municipal elections that angered ethnic Serbs and international efforts to broker a deal to ease tensions over a dispute over license plates.
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And while it’s a perfect creative choice to turn Yankovic's life story into a parody, the movie pokes at tropes like contentious paternal relationships, tempestuous love affairs and battles with substance abuse in a way that can’t be quite as revelatory.
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The New York Times, frequently mocked by Editor Anderson for its establishment brand of news gathering, in 2004 described the AVA “as one of the country’s most idiosyncratic and contentious weeklies”.
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The talks could become contentious with new union leaders who want to take a more confrontational stance.
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The most contentious and ambiguous part of selling the land is how the existing water rights of the farm would be allocated.
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The most contentious NFTs are profile pictures (PFPs) that are designed to be used as avatars for social media accounts, like Vittoria’s CryptoPunk or Gwyneth Paltrow’s Bored Ape.
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Countless new genres were being thrown at this music that eschewed a dance floor formula, ranging from ambient techno to Warp’s own suggestion of electronic listening music, but the one that stuck is the most contentious: IDM – Intelligent Dance Music.
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Smith missed the Australian Open's contentious second cut after failing to make up enough ground during a third-round one-under-par 69 at Victoria Golf Club on Saturday.
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And I think that that gets actually at why these conversations about what kids read in school are as contentious as they are.
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Final Fantasy XIII (Image credit: Square-Enix)Final Fantasy XIII is one of the most contentious Final Fantasy games released in recent memory.
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Discussions became so contentious in 2017 that the leaders of the JPC broke them off.
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Since the contentious moment, Smith has apologized to Rock and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the awards.
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House, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over who calls the shots Foreshadowing contentious times to come, Democrats and Republicans in the evenly-divided state House sparred Thursday over who has the power to call a special election for a vacant seat in western Pennsylvania.
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Bright white (Image credit: Taran Wilkhu)Is it a contentious claim that white bathroom ideas are falling out of fashion in 2023? We don't think so.
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8 million monetizable daily active users before Musk's contentious take-private deal.
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“In a time of often polarized opinions, the SAG fostered civil discussion and understanding across differences, often resulting in strong convergence even on the most contentious issues,” the statement from nine of the group’s members reads.
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“I’m really glad that I can push three pieces of legislation into the end zone before I leave — this is one of them,” Cheh said in an interview, referencing a bill that would require “bird friendly” building materials in new construction and improvements, and a more contentious plan to expand the city’s solar energy program.
Source: The Washington Post

Supreme Court has agreed to hear another challenge to President Biden’s contentious student loan relief program.
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"Thanksgiving in my house is always kind of a contentious time -- there's a group who wants traditional American fare and an older generation who wants the Korean classics -- I wanted to create a recipe that spoke to both sides of our family.
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Discussions became so contentious in 2017 that the leaders of the JPC broke them off.
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The battle over Hulu heated up last month when the CEOs of Disney and Comcast publicly sparred over their jointly owned asset — laying bare a contentious negotiation over the streamer's future that had previously flared behind C-suite doors.
Source: Business Insider

Since hate speech and misinformation can be difficult to define, excessively restricting the reach of contentious political speech—as China, Russia, and other authoritarian states are wont to do—risks unduly limiting the freedom of expression on which democratic discourse depends.
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The Boston Globe “Almost everything in Brookline is contentious these days,” said Heather Hamilton, chairwoman of the Select Board.
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For creditors and equity holders, whether claims are measured in USD or the applicable cryptocurrency is only the beginning of what will likely be a long and contentious road to recovery.
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The latest: Justice Department asks judge to hold Trump team in contempt over Mar-a-Lago case Return to menuProsecutors have urged a federal judge to hold Donald Trump’s office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a May subpoena to return all classified documents in his possession, according to people familiar with the matter — a sign of how contentious the private talks have become over whether the former president still holds any secret papers.
Source: The Washington Post

The row over the marbles – removed in contentious circumstances by Lord Elgin, who was ambassador at the time to the Ottoman empire of which present-day Greece was then a part – has raged for more than 200 years.
Source: The Guardian

The event was serving as a much-anticipated referendum on one of the most contentious ideas to emerge from the legal academy in recent years, and many of the biggest names in American constitutional law had come to Cambridge to join the debate.
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This “split ticket” method, choosing a candidate based on merit rather than the letter following their name, was more common during the more civilized, less contentious political era of old.
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This is not an assumption of determinism: que sera, sera is an analytic triviality, not a contentious physical postulate.
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However, the actual value of loyalty is one of the most contentious debates in marketing practice.
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Robert Craddock reported that "a series of secret conversations between leading umpires, high-ranking officials and disgruntled players preceded the stunning decision to call Murali""Chucking" was becoming an increasingly contentious issue - strangely, often couched in moralistic terms.
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  “It was very contentious at the time, but you put 50 years there, and I think people have a lot more perspective on it,” Selmis siad.
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  The first three episodes covered Harry and Meghan's childhoods and their meeting and courtship, as well as their contentious relationship with the paparazzi.
Source: CNET

The world is awash with data, and data privacy has become a hugely contentious political, ethical and legal issue.
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Venturing into this contentious territory are three authors who, as Lippmann once did, dissent from the new Cold War orthodoxy.
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It’s noteworthy that the moral and ethical implications are still as contentious today as they were 20 years ago when this episode aired.
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That is contentious enough by itself.
Source: The New York Times

Once the action kicks in, My Father’s Dragon portrays their contentious quest to save their magic island from sinking into the sea with a visual flair that matches the film’s heartfelt emotions.
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) More than almost any filmmaker in the genre space, Gunn has maintained a regular dialogue with his fans, responding to questions about his DC and Marvel projects on Twitter (or debunking false rumors or out-of-control speculation), so he is uniquely aware of just how contentious and controversial the DC fandom has become — and how fraught departing from the Snyderverse would be for its most passionate and strident fans.
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"Social media platforms reward the most contentious content, because people who oppose it engage with it to express their disgust, their anger, to say it's wrong, and in doing so, platforms elevate that and give it an algorithmic boost," Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, said.
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Similar to the contentious cork versus screw cap debate, there’s tradition and romanticism behind the manual uncorking of a bottle of wine.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The financial precarity of trying to make a living in professional track and field might make some runners a little leery about blasting their hot takes on contentious subjects into the Twittersphere.
Source: Outside

After jetting off to Europe to play some shows with the famed guitarist amid the closing of his contentious defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard, Beck teased that the duo had an LP ready to go.
Source: Rolling Stone

"I'll be like, 'How long have you been there? What's your story?'" (Samanta Helou Hernandez / For the Times)The palm, a contentious signifier of L.
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had their chance at revenge on Sunday, but couldn't take it, in large part due to another contentious moment involving Paul and Williamson.
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Pakistan, deflated by the losses - not to mention the contentious nature of Pope's catch off Shakeel - emerged from lunch with vengeance on their minds.
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"Aside from the pitch, Pakistan's team selection was the most contentious issue, with the home side handing out four debut caps and deciding against playing an allrounder.
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RELATED: Meet the NFL players' gorgeous wives and girlfriends: From Joe Burrow to Matthew Stafford The hip hop legend parted ways with his wife of almost 26 years, Nicole Young, in June 2020, and at the end of last year, it was reported that the former couple had finally settled their contentious divorce.
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