How to Use disputation in a Sentence

disputation

noun
  • Officials warned massive disputations in the area will likely last weeks.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Abstruse disputation is hardly unknown but argument has reached a new level with threats of lawsuits and charges of snobbish bigotry and snowflake naïveté.
    — Ethan Bronner, Bloomberg.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • This did not, however, mark the end of disputation concerning the Northwest Angle.
    — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Excited more by competing than actually governing, 45* blasts reveille at dawn with provocative tweets and then lets the din of disputation rage all day and into the night.
    — Robert Dallek, The Hive, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The signature Tel Aviv cafés were the Rowal and the Cassit, both staying open until dawn to allow émigré writers to conclude their disputations.
    — Norman Lebrecht, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • According to him, advances in machine learning have yanked questions once trapped inside theological/philosophical disputations into corporate board packs.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Passionate disagreements over small causes are a professional hazard of intellectuals, and the conservative tradition of disputation exacerbates that tendency by staying in the realm of abstraction.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Only death could remove Hoover from office, and his departure eventually did lead to significant reforms, but the notoriety of the FBI has endured—thanks often to fiascos of its own making—as has contentious disputation about it.
    — Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Only death could remove Hoover from office, and his departure eventually did lead to significant reforms, but the notoriety of the FBI has endured—thanks often to fiascos of its own making—as has contentious disputation about it.
    — Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
  • From the outside, the American South of 2017 may seem stuck in a one-note loop of grim historical disputation, with fights over the Confederate flag and monuments interrupted only by meteorological disaster.
    — Richard Fausset, ajc, 10 Sep. 2017
  • From the outside, the American South of 2017 may seem stuck in a one-note loop of grim historical disputation, with fights over the Confederate flag and monuments interrupted only by meteorological disaster.
    — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017

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