debate
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The physical shortage of housing gets a lot of blame in the debate about how to tackle America’s affordability problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
During the trial, there was little debate over the role of the accused in the group or their activities, including the vigils.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Dr Sue Smith, the NAS's head of clinical services, says: "We've got a group of people with a genuine need. We're having this weird debate about what they should be called."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The combined shock of the fire and back-to-back heatwaves has ignited a debate over whether Belgium is sufficiently prepared for the effects of climate change.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Parker once told me he’d rather be my debate partner even if he didn’t agree with my position, just so he’d never have to go against me.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
What started for Mei as a "going out stack" before nights out soon spread to exams, speeches and debates.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
One that does not commit so much time and energy to go-nowhere debates?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Schwarz, who previously worked in the Google Research organization, recalled internal debates about the potential risks of such a strategy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
But her talent for finding stories that resonate and ignite has increasingly drawn her into some of publishing’s most contentious debates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
One of our earliest and longest debates concerned the relationship between the ANC and the Communist Party.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Legal scholars have debated whether surrogates should pay legal damages if they fail to honor a contractual abortion provision, surrender payments remaining on the contract, or even pay back money they already received.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Despite that, local issues are also highlighted and debated and there can often be a by-election bounce for the local community, as public money suddenly gets spent on things.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
While the timelines on commercially meaningful quantum computers are sometimes vague and debated, enterprises are investing today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
For nearly three decades, a onetime Compton gang leader named Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been one of the most vocal theorists about one of the most debated celebrity killings ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
It cannot be debated that the existence of a “gene” was utterly unknown to Mendel.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Therefore, it is “the default connectivity partner” for customers debating between copper and fiber components, in his view.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
I’m all for rallying around a book or author and debating their merits like it’s a sporting match.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Scientists studying ancient human remains have frequently used evidence of congenital infection when debating whether syphilis was present outside the Americas before the voyages of Christopher Columbus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Brian Bracher, 65, from Chichester in West Sussex, said he cannot believe the UK is still debating these changes.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
We glanced at each other, debating, because kids in Big Trouble don’t normally hang out on the couch, but we sat, because he was right.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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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