How to Use disputation in a Sentence

disputation

noun

• And having four teams in the playoff (as opposed to two chosen to play for the title during the B.C.S. era) has meant less disputation.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2016
• There’s some disputation with the referee, who says play on.
  — Andrew Keh and James Wagner, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• Officials warned massive disputations in the area will likely last weeks.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• First there was Trump’s disputation of the intelligence findings that Russia was behind the hacking of Clinton campaign emails.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 11 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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