debate
Usage
Example Sentences
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Demonstrators have clashed with police outside Congress in recent weeks as lawmakers debated the bill.
The debate became so pronounced on X that Block CEO Jack Dorsey responded to one online critic who slammed his “managerial incompetence.”
From MarketWatch
She believes in constitutional rights but warns that framing political issues mainly in terms of competing claims of absolute rights makes our political debates more pointed and less productive.
However, this appeal has been particularly bold and its timing has reopened the debate about Juan Carlos's future.
From BBC
“We are a country of great debates and disagreements.”
From Salon
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