Words similar to contest

Example sentences for: contest

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Bloom, after reading the work of some contest winners, declared them "of a badness not to be believed."
Language is an enduring contest for dominion between ancient usage and demands for adequate expression of our modern quest for novelty.
They were all Greeks — they had a common tongue and an evolving pan-Hellenic religion, and at regular intervals they were brought together by the ritual athletic contest of the Olympian, Delphian, and Isthmian games.
When Gore hires a bunch of inside-the-Beltway political hacks and pretends there's no contest for the nomination, he's a risible Washington stiff.
Branch interprets the Malcolm-Martin choice not, as the press did, as a simple contrast between violence and gentleness, but as a contest between democracy and its critics.