DISPUTATION Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

disputation

noun

ˌdi-spyə-ˈtā-shən

as in dispute

variance of opinion on a matter a heated disputation over the true authorship of the poem popularly known as "The Night Before Christmas"

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Recent Examples of disputation 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 Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture. —

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023 Seven decades later, this culture of disputation emerged as a central theme in Timothy Garton Ash’s The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness report on the Eastern European revolutions of 1989. —

Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022 By taking steps to remember that politics always involves disputation, even among those who vote for the same candidates and affiliate with the same party, Americans may begin to rediscover the ability to respectfully disagree with opponents. —

Robert B. Talisse, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2022 See All Example Sentences for disputation

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The dispute has opened a new front in a years-long fight over transparency at the shelter, which has faced multiple investigations into overcrowding, animal deaths and a sharp decline in transfers to rescue groups.

— Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
As bitcoin becomes more involved in private contracts, treasury strategies, cross border settlement and business arrangements, disputes will not always arrive in court as dramatic stories about hacks or scams.

— Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026