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Example sentences for: contentious

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After a long and contentious residence at the University of Southern California, the Arnold Schönberg Center has decamped to Vienna, the city of the 12 tone composer's birth.
But it was during the much feistier encounter on Meet The Press this morning--the most contentious of the primary debates so far--that Bradley finally came into his own.
And whether the fractal theory really explains the relationship of metabolic rate to body size is also still contentious.
I am not trying to make contentious points here but merely showing how ubiquitous our persuasive Foregone Conclusions can be.
Earlier, J. C. Hotten's Slang Dictionary suggested it might be a corruption of contentious . Most dictionaries today accept the theory that it arose from a Middle English word conteck `quarrelling' or `contention.