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The broadcaster's withdrawal from this year's contest in Burgas, Bulgaria, does not necessarily rule out Dutch participation in Eurovision 2027.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Green said organisers would investigate whether another Dutch broadcaster might be willing to participate in the contest.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

He would lose a contest to Shaquille O’Neal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Lore holds that the first docking contest arose from watermen debating their prowess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

A silly book about a silly pony contest that she knew from the very first page Rainbow would win, for Rainbow always won.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

In Argentina, the contests have fueled numerous memes that have even been seized on by top-flight football clubs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

The kids who lose these contests aren’t chosen at random.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

The family’s future is in limbo as Jeanie Buss contests her five siblings’ plans to sell their remaining stake of the team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Nick the Incredible Flying Brick, whose real name is Nick Delves, has previously stood for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in 13 parliamentary contests.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Talent contests and megalomaniac record producers have always paired ingenue wannabes with experienced songwriters, for instance, cashing in quickly on success before the public's appetite for novelty fades.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

It is unclear whether the Louisiana ruling covering Hendrick’s transfer will be contested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

A total of 211 bands from 14 countries, including youth bands, took part in the "truly thrilling and fiercely contested competition".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Russian-Japanese relations have long been dogged by the contested islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and seized by the Soviet Union in 1945.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

The contested isles are part of the volcanic Kuril archipelago, which runs in a broad arc from Russia's Kamchatka peninsula down to Japan's main northern island Hokkaido.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

For five or six strokes, the bows of the two boats contested for the lead, back and forth like the heads of racehorses coming down the stretch.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Randy Mastro, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, filed a letter on Tuesday contesting the automatic stay and maintaining that the court’s emergency pause is still in effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

Labour, the Conservatives, the Lib Dems, the Green Party and Restore Britain have all ruled out contesting the seat.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

The Australian was contesting his first match at the All England Club since losing the 2022 final against Novak Djokovic, having been plagued by injury in recent years.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

In the crafty vein, Madison was ingenious at contesting the strongest argument for a Pennsylvania location, which was its geographic centrality.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis