debate
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Example Sentences
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She spoke of one audience member, a relative of someone who was murdered, who became more open to a debate about the merits of capital punishment after seeing the opera.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
This FDA list, known as “the bulks list,” is at the center of the ongoing peptide debate.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
But it’s still up for debate whether Verizon and its competitors will “pay a price” for what will be “sharply reduced disclosure going forward.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026
A worker at a nongovernmental organization in Yekaterinburg said a debate among residents of her apartment block about migrating their chat group to Max grew heated when a majority opposed it for data-privacy reasons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Deciding how many of them should be in conference room B at three o’clock had sparked their longest and bitterest debate.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
