contentiousness

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Pizza always amuses me with its contentiousness among certain types of home cooks — the flour, the oven, the hydration, so many absolute rights and wrongs.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

Now the contentiousness that drove that decision has become clear in legal filings that detail how those works came to be at the center of a bitter dispute within the Early family.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to The Associated Press this weekend ahead of this week’s annual United Nations gathering of world leaders — a convening blemished by COVID, climate concerns and contentiousness across the planet.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2021

That contributes to this escalatory dynamic of contentiousness in our discourse.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2020

His face had lately adopted an expression of playful contentiousness.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini