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For comparison, a New York Times/Siena poll of the Texas contest fielded in June, which found the overall result tied at 47%, found Talarico winning 5% of Republicans and only 4% unsure.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

That is the popular constitutional contest the whistles, warnings, carpools, legal observers, and barricades made visible.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

The Senate presents a different but equally dramatic contest.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

The U.S. is pushing an American drone to challenge China in a new race to support mountaineers, setting up an unusual superpower contest in one of the most remote areas of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

When we were in fourth grade, there was a Halloween costume contest at school.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Kolodny also emphasized that it’s politically savvy for industry groups to support the re-election of incumbents in safe seats, rather than just focusing on the relatively few of the House’s 435 contests that are competitive.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Rather than a shootout or penalty kicks, the championship was decided by a single moment of quality in one of the tournament’s tightest contests.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

They have competed without Plum, their top scorer, for 12 games and former No. 2 overall pick Brink during the past nine contests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Germans do it only during international sporting contests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Her parents bought her a dictionary of her own, giving her an advantage in classroom spelling contests.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

The charges are legally weak and in normal times would be readily contested.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

A sport cannot function seriously on a world scale without such conformity, and a World Cup - launched in 1963 and contested every four years since - needed that.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Friedkin’s movie shifted people’s perceptions about fear and played with longstanding ideas about the nuclear family and religious ideology, themes that were starting to be contested and debated as America moved further from ’50s-era sterility.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Despite neo-Nazis frequently flocking to the address, its last private owner, Gerlinde Pommer, vetoed any transformation of the house and contested its expropriation by the state until the very end.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

He won every race he contested in the 1939 school season.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

That history is why contesting the constitutional allocation of public safety cannot mean giving private people authority to govern vulnerable people.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

“Waymo reviews all received citations and may engage with the court to address and resolve them, including contesting cases on their merit if we believe they were issued erroneously,” a company spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and Restore Britain have all ruled out contesting the seat - leaving the prospect of Farage facing novelty candidates like Count Binface.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Washington and Tehran have been contesting some of the deal’s finer points, including whether passage through the key waterway will be free from tolls.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Nothing much happened in court, other than Du Bois announcing his plans to file a motion contesting the decision to try Richard as an adult.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater