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Example sentences for: contentious

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DNA-led species discovery is more contentious, but again is not new.
And the GOP majority is so thin and fractured that passing contentious legislation was almost certainly impossible, even if there had been time.)
The current fast-track debate will be contentious.
"A break-up of Microsoft would be highly controversial and politically contentious, especially in the run-up to a presidential election," the paper said.
The book concludes in orthodox multiculturalism and a surprisingly bitter estimate of America's democratic potential: "America approached the century's end as fractured along social, racial, ethnic, economic, gender, and regional lines as it had been in all but a few moments in its history; with a culture so diverse and so contentious that it seemed to lack any coherence or shape; with declining faith in its government, its leaders, and its principal institutions."