debate
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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
Vocabulary lists containing debate
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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Speech and Debate
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