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debate
noun as in discussion of issues; consideration
Strongest matches
argument, contest, controversy, deliberation, dispute, match
Strong matches
agitation, altercation, argumentation, cogitation, contention, controverting, dialectic, disputation, hassle, meditation, mooting, polemic, rebutting, reflection, refuting, tiff, words, wrangle
verb as in argue, discuss
Strong matches
agitate, altercate, bandy, canvass, cogitate, confab, confute, contend, controvert, demonstrate, differ, disprove, dispute, hassle, moot, pettifog, prove, reason, rebut, refute, rehash
Weak matches
bump heads, chew the fat, cross swords, discept, hammer away at, hash over, have at it, kick around, knock around, lock horns, pick a bone, put up argument, set to, talk back, talk game, thrash out, toss around
Example Sentences
Part of the TV debate in Arendal featured a duel between party leaders from the same side in politics.
Sinner stayed bullish publicly as the debate raged about the doping case, while he was able to move on quickly from the brutal French Open defeat by Alcaraz.
There’s much debate about who created the cocktail in the States, but some reports attribute that achievement to Decibel, an underground sake bar in New York City’s East Village.
How Democrats navigate these questions may determine whether the party sets the terms of debate on Israel, or cedes the fight to its opponents.
Vivienne Stern, the chief executive of Universities UK, told the BBC there would be "a debate over the course of the next few months" as to which universities would be able to charge which rates.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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