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contestation

[ kon-te-stey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of contesting; controversy; dispute.
  2. an assertion contended for.


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  • ԴDzcDz·ٱ·ٲtDz noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of contestation1

1540–50; (< Middle French ) < Latin DzԳٱپō- (stem of DzԳٱپō ). See contest, -ation
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"The election in KwaZulu-Natal could become very messy - expect a lot disputes and contestation over the results," Prof Calland said.

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Bushnell’s and Azzarello’s deaths both resonate with and differ from these instances of self-killing — which are in large part responses to colonial and state violence, contestations of unlivable structural inequalities — in significant ways.

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“Especially during difficult moments of intense political contestation, it is essential that all members of our university community respect each other and not engage in authoritarian power plays.”

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In these contestations, Hamilton, the head of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis group, returns to the decadal survey: It’s a fairly democratic process, and it repeatedly put MSR on top.

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The snowballing movement of contestation in France is another manifestation of a global food crisis worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a major food producer.

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