contentious
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Instead, the referee stepped in and waved off what will go down as a contentious stoppage.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
The Federal Reserve will release minutes Wednesday afternoon from an unusually divided and contentious April policy meeting.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
“We didn’t get that, so we don’t know what’s going on here,” Rogers said at a contentious committee hearing with top Army leaders.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
And it was a contentious case having to do with the rights of trans people and the rights of the owners of a spa.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
The actual number is slightly contentious because the heavy, synthesized elements exist for only millionths of seconds and chemists sometimes argue over whether they have really been detected or not.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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