contested
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The charges are legally weak and in normal times would be readily contested.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
He preferred an easygoing static tripod shot — a point Adrian contested, as is shown in the film.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Despite neo-Nazis frequently flocking to the address, its last private owner, Gerlinde Pommer, vetoed any transformation of the house and contested its expropriation by the state until the very end.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
In her timely and thoughtful book “Hinterlands,” Hannah Lucinda Smith uses the term, somewhat poetically, to mean contested places on the margins of modern states—and critically, former empires—where international attention has traditionally been sparse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Much of the southern highlands were “debatable lands” in the border sense of a contested territory without established government or the rule of law.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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