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debate

[dih-beyt] / dɪˈbeɪt /




Usage

What are other ways to say debate? To debate is to interchange formal (usually opposing) arguments, especially on public questions: to debate a proposed amendment. To argue is to present one's reasons: The scientists argued for a safer testing procedure; it may also imply disputing in an angry or excited way: His parents argue all the time. To discuss is to present varied opinions and views: to discuss ways and means. 

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However, he warned that whether there was a change of leader was "irrelevant if it doesn't start with a policy debate".

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Nithya Raman paused when the question came during a debate with Mayor Karen Bass in Sherman Oaks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

The committee should debate, wrestle, have it out, all that.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Leo has made the hot-button issue a cornerstone of his papacy in dedicating to it his first encyclical -- a document which lays the basis for Church teaching and longer-term debate.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

During the course of that debate, which lasted between four and six hours, things were said that had never before been uttered in any public forum at the national level.

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




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