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They contend the business, known as Duryea’s Lobster Deck, has never gone through the proper approval process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

And most people contend that plagiarism, cheating and ghostwriting are all cut from the same cloth because they all lack the spark that we ascribe to truly original thinking and writing.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

The 1994 case about the internment of Japanese American citizens is still relevant today as the Supreme Court has failed to fully contend with its legacy.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

There are three main reasons their doubters can point to: their poor underlying numbers last season, the 'second-season syndrome' for promoted sides and a European campaign to contend with.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

I had plenty of my own documents to contend with.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

She also contends that Bass failed to act with urgency on the city’s most pressing problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

“There simply is not much room for either stock prices or EPS to continue rising without some correction or a pause which allows the trendline averages to catch up,” Paulsen contends.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Reported talk of sailors debating whether to jump off the ship is overblown, he contends, recalling jokes that were made during his time on an aircraft carrier.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

He contends that no one has yet come up with “a single case of a demonstrably innocent person executed in America in the modern era.”

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

But even if, as Cannadine contends, “Speech was the very fibre of his being,” that’s not to say that it proceeded in any natural way from that being.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Months after that, the Phoenix’s media critic Dan Kennedy contended that it is our obligation to watch such difficult accounts in an essay for Harvard’s Nieman Foundation.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

They contended the economy and labor market are strong enough to support such a strategy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

The only way he might have contended for first, he said, was “if Pogacar doesn’t start the race.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

He pledged to modernise the city's notoriously dense bureaucracy, and on Friday contended that his government had made progress.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Reproducing the Greek arguments faithfully, Maimonides contended that the hollow spheres that twirled about the earth had to be moved by something, say, the next sphere out.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Military on the Lincoln are reportedly contending with food shortages, broken plumbing and exhaustion, according to two US publications that cover the military - the Military Times and Stars & Stripes.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

For Chinese manufacturers contending with weak demand at home and higher trade barriers in the U.S. and Europe, that market offers an attractive source of growth.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

That marked the slowest growth since the end of 2022, when the country was contending with the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

After the eight-day-long fire in a 500,000-square-foot Boyle Heights warehouse, eastern Los Angeles residents are contending with putrid smells, soot and potentially hazardous airborne chemicals after heavy plumes of smoke spread throughout the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Now she, who had been impatient once, and violent, who had cursed and shouted and contended like a man, moved into silence, contending only, and with the last measure of her strength, with God.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin