contentions
- plural of contention.
Example Sentences
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Contentions to the contrary, they say, are false.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
Contentions that the new drugs are superior have been “greatly exaggerated,” says Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, chairman of the psychiatry department at .
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2010
All Nations, before they began to keep exact accounts of Time, have been prone to raise their Antiquities; and this humour has been promoted, by the Contentions between Nations about their Originals.
From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir
Contentions between van Noordt and his vice-admiral resulted in the latter's being marooned, and the elevation to his place of Captain Pierre de Lint, while Lambert Biesman was made captain of the "Concordia."
From History of the Philippine Islands by Robertson, James Alexander
Now if it were lawful after so many learned Contentions about these Words, I would give my Sense of them thus:
