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This will be confusing for House Republicans, who for several months now have been debating how to craft another party-line budget bill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

On the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank meetings, market experts have been debating whether to buy or short gold.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 16, 2025

They have been debating tougher laws, and demanded executives appear to explain what has been done so far.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2024

Since Brexit, academics, politicians and others have been debating Britain’s democratic deficit in a series of meetings, conferences and reports.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023

“I have been debating in my mind for some time a question which I have had to debate with myself once or twice before in my life,” she wrote in “My Day.”

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman