contested
- adjective
- /kənˈtɛstɪd/
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disputado
- The championship match was highly contested, with both teams showing exceptional skill.
Well, what do we do with these more contested usage errors?
- Well, what do we do with these more contested usage errors?
- I think it gets kind of lazy when you try to because religion is such a contested category.
- We'll surely change the way we think about that fiercely contested land once called Palestine and on and on.
- It's like if you're in a video game, you land somewhere that is not contested, but you're not afraid to fight, right?
- There's that younger driest thing has become so hotly contested.
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Well, Mr Speaker, people will remember that the reforms for higher education were bitterly contested in this House.
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But climate science seems to probably be one of the most contested areas that I've seen.
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Their most obvious, and I think controversial, role came during contested elections.
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You've got a a fiercely contested upcoming election.
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Hobbes gives us the definitive language of the modern state, yet he remains in many ways as contested for us as he was in his own time.
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The recent decision about the land use was met with contested opinions from the community.
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In this class, we discussed several contested ideas about the nature of democracy.
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Etymology
Contested comes from the old word contest, made of con- meaning 'together' and testari meaning 'to witness', and you can see the same root in the English word test. So if something is contested, people are still 'testing' it or arguing about it, like in a competition or in court, and it is not settled.