disputation
Example Sentences
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As a girl, Petrou was studious and strong-willed; in a 2018 profile in The Wall Street Journal, her mother recalled Petrou getting into a heated “intellectual disputation” with their rabbi at Sunday school.
Luther’s theses were written in Latin as an academic/theological disputation about the practice of indulgences, which were a million miles from a freewheeling, secular, new-age fashion such as Twitter.
From Washington Post
This pre-Renaissance tradition was that of the disputatio, or disputation, by which university lecturers and other public pundits were expected to allow periods of time for counterarguments regarding their ideas, theories and general assertions.
From Washington Post
What happens is a version of what former philosophy students and debate-happy internet smarties will recognize as the Trolley Problem, a chestnut of hypothetical ethical disputation.
From New York Times
Santos's angry disputation was soon undermined after Rochard released a high-quality photo which appeared to show Santos wearing the same red feathered dress as in the first image.
From Salon
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