contended

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But his opposition, he contended, made the final versions of the legislation better.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Far better, Huang contended, that “all the AI developers in the world are developing on the American tech stack.”

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

They contended that through mental exercises, people could alter the shapes of their own brains, cultivating desirable qualities and suppressing undesirable ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

The NFL has long contended it’s the world’s greatest reality show and the numbers support that.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

Reproducing the Greek arguments faithfully, Maimonides contended that the hollow spheres that twirled about the earth had to be moved by something, say, the next sphere out.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife