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

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Craig Overton won an entertaining contest against twin brother Jamie as Trent Rockets edged a thriller by four wickets against London Spirit in the men's Hundred.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Reilly lost, but his firm cleared at least $6 million on that contest alone — or about $17 million in today’s dollars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

The Senate presents a different but equally dramatic contest.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

“A misery contest is not worth entering, for one only wins by losing,” as Agatha Swanburne once observed, and yet there are many who insist on holding such competitions, even to this very day.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

Rodriguez, who has expressed some interest in the proposal, said city leaders had not determined how county election officials would issue separate ballots for voters who would be barred from state and national contests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

The formal declaration of Fujimori's win brings one of Peru's tightest leadership contests of all time to a close and ushers in the Andean nation's ninth president in a decade.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Top prep squads such as Chaminade-Madonna, Miami Northwestern and St. Thomas Aquinas showcase future college and pro stars in high-octane, pass-heavy contests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

—Eating spaghetti at your house on Saturday night and having “worm-slurping” contests to see who could suck the longest piece of spaghetti.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

Most forfeiture targets have none of those advantages, which is why the overwhelming majority of forfeitures are never contested at all.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

He preferred an easygoing static tripod shot — a point Adrian contested, as is shown in the film.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 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

Mr. Burnham, who served briefly in previous Labour governments, twice contested the party leadership before leaving Parliament nine years ago to run for mayor of Manchester.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

They contested its claim for a 2005 crash of a helicopter into a government- owned warehouse in Pyongyang.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

A full list of all the candidates contesting the by-election can be found here.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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

When two males are contesting the alpha position, they usually do so by forming extensive coalitions of supporters, both male and female, from within the group.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari