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Example sentences for: contention

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As further ammunition to support my bulletproof contention that our language is loaded with guns and cannons, I'll conclude by gunning for items that have the word gun in them.
Dan Burton's on-the-record contention that Clinton is a "scumbag"--helpfully defined as a slang term for a soiled rubber by Fox News Sunday 's Juan Williams--is universally derided as crude.
When reviewers failed to arrive at a consensus on the quality score, two content experts reviewed and scored the topic in contention by consensus.
She rejected my contention that ecological initiatives represent "the leading postwar triumph for American government," and slammed me for using the word "success" to describe environmental regulation.
The contention of the pregnant member of the office staff is that I'm a bastard.