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contentiousness



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But even the judge last week seemed exasperated by the contentiousness of a feud that shows no sign of ending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

Sometimes, like this week, we draw together with all our contentiousness and all our ego, and we sit down and try to work it out.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

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

His face had lately adopted an expression of playful contentiousness.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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