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Pizza always amuses me with its contentiousness among certain types of home cooks — the flour, the oven, the hydration, so many absolute rights and wrongs.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

Sometimes, like this week, we draw together with all our contentiousness and all our ego, and we sit down and try to work it out.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

Now the contentiousness that drove that decision has become clear in legal filings that detail how those works came to be at the center of a bitter dispute within the Early family.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Some NFL owners remain skeptical that Snyder can be convinced to sell the franchise voluntarily and are girding for further contentiousness with him, a person with direct knowledge of the owners’ deliberations said last week.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

His face had lately adopted an expression of playful contentiousness.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini