contest
Example Sentences
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Despite a collapse and a Travis Head assault, the tourists were still in the contest as day three dawned.
From BBC
After a tortuous and contested process, a federal judge endorsed a roughly $6 billion bid by Amber.
In November, a U.S. judge blessed a proposed sale of Citgo to an affiliate of Elliott Management, which had been in a contest against several other investors to swap debts for control of the company.
Again, the aesthetics of art photography and documentary photography are in contest, and here the result is a bit comic.
Warner Chief Executive David Zaslav’s plan, which is scheduled to occur this summer, is being contested by the Ellison family’s Paramount, which has launched a hostile bid for all of Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times
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