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Contentions to the contrary, they say, are false.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

Contentions that the new drugs are superior have been “greatly exaggerated,” says Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, chairman of the psychiatry department at .

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2010

Oppressive to a mighty state, Contentions, feuds, the people's hate— But who dare question that which fate     Has ordered to have been?

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

The two Contentions are thought to have been chiefly the work of Marlowe, with Greene to help him.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.

Contentions and struggles between the two great races of Saxons and Danes continued for some centuries to agitate the island.

From King Alfred of England Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob