debate
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For Jenna Lindsay, who manages Cafe Continental, a bar and restaurant in the Inverclyde town of Gourock, the political debate about taxation feels a long way from the pressures of real life.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
“Steve is a fraud. He’s a liar, and I’m not going to sit by and just let him do it anymore,” Bianco said after the Rancho Mirage debate.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Though it is a matter of some debate exactly how equitable the league was even in its earliest days, by the middle of the century it had, as Mr. Stuttard writes, “mutated” into an empire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The debate continues around the risk of AI-native companies replacing enterprise software providers persists.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
My heart rate finally elevated slightly above somber territory as we engaged in a heated debate over which came first, the chicken or the egg.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing debate
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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Speech and Debate
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