disputation
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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 • Jan. 20, 2023
Rather than merely presenting an interpretation of Christian thought and expecting students to absorb it verbatim, scholastic teachers used disputation with students to hone their students’ argumentative skills, insight, and logical analysis.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
We don’t yet know whether Kagan and Gorsuch wrangled over the language of the opinion, though such disputation wouldn’t be out of character for either.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2018
The pettiness of human disputation gutters in the face of this magnificent land: these seas, these plains, these mountains, these deserts, these islands.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2018
According to Kuhn, revolution always brings with it disputation and conflict; since there was virtually no disputation, it is all too easy to assume that there can have been no revolution.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing disputation
The Crucible
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The Horse and His Boy
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Unit 5, Whole-Class Learning
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