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Example sentences for: contends

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Historian Paul Johnson contends that Clinton is the "most disreputable president ever."
A related article contends that China's military is no challenge to the United States'.
An essay contends that the Iraq attack made no sense strategically, and it won't aid our efforts to stop Saddam Hussein's weapons development.
A British academic, Lee contends Woolf wasn't nearly as mad as previous biographers have alleged.
9, 2004 (in which KSM also contends that Yousef never divulged to him the intended target of the attack).