debate
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Not to debate it, not to tolerate it, but to actually inhabit it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Rather than neatly settling the debate, the result showed that snake origins were likely complex, with different branches of the snake family tree preserving different clues about how body shape, habitat, and feeding style evolved.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
"This will be a matter of reprioritisation," he said during the debate.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
A lengthy debate unfolds on the sheet of paper that holds the Senate markup of the Bill of Rights from 1789, and Washington’s signature towers above the Oath of Allegiance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
The Madisonian influence revealed itself in the House debate of March 23 when the committee report came up for a vote.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing debate
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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Speech and Debate
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