contentiousness
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Pizza always amuses me with its contentiousness among certain types of home cooks — the flour, the oven, the hydration, so many absolute rights and wrongs.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
Sometimes, like this week, we draw together with all our contentiousness and all our ego, and we sit down and try to work it out.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Now the contentiousness that drove that decision has become clear in legal filings that detail how those works came to be at the center of a bitter dispute within the Early family.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
The public contentiousness began after Racine’s office said that he will hold a news conference Thursday “to make a major announcement related to the Washington Commanders.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2022
I said, “It looks then as though the natural contentiousness of people had died. But I don’t believe that. It’ll just take another channel. Can you think, sir, of what that channel might be?”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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