Example Sentences

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By measuring distortions of light across billions of galaxies, the Rubin Observatory has the potential to get to the bottom of this question that scientists have been disputing for the past decade.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

Ever since McAllister gathered the first set of One Nation numbers in 1998, political scientists have been disputing what they mean.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2017

“Actually, campus activists have been disputing one aspect of the story all along,” which was the magazine’s “depiction of them as quiescent,” she said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2014

But more recently, over the last ten years or so, scientists have been disputing this.

From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2013

From the days of Homer to our own, critics have been disputing about the place to be assigned to this or that member of the poetic hierarchy.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell