debate
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When he first started experimenting with AI, tech reporter Sam Schechner used it to rewrite sonnets in the style of Snoop Dogg and debate about the nature of consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The article leaves room for debate about whether Platner actually perpetrated the worst offenses, which he denies, and whether those offenses should be disqualifying for a Senate candidate.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
“The debate isn’t necessarily two candidates on one stage appealing to one person, it’s for attention and information in the same sphere,” said Spencer Slovic of Mycorrhiza Digital, who ran Roy’s digital advertising.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
And that sensitivity comes as the perennial debate about English identity has taken on a harder edge since February last year.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
The more romantic case for the Potomac entered the debate duringMadison’s initial speech against the Susquehanna site.
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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