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Princeton's WordNet

  1. contestedadjective

    disputed or made the object of contention or competition

    "a contested election"

Wiktionary

  1. contestedadjective

    debated, controversial

ChatGPT

  1. contested

    Contested refers to an object, position, idea, or situation that is the subject of disagreement or competition between multiple parties. It implies a dispute or controversy where different parties are vying for control, ownership, acceptance, or validation. It can be used in various contexts such as law, politics, sports, and many others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Contested

    of Contest

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CONTESTED in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CONTESTED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of CONTESTED in a Sentence

  1. Richard Allen:

    We don't feel we should be removing contested claims even when we believe they may be false, there are a lot of concepts being tested because we don't know what is going to work.

  2. Rudy Gobert:

    I just try to do the same thing that I always do, which is: make sure the other team doesn’t score. … I want them taking shots that are not comfortable taking and contested. Tonight, they kept attacking the rim, so I kept being there.

  3. College Board:

    Many AP courses, especially Many AP courses based in history and culture, deal with contested topics. The AP Program navigates those challenging waters by relying on our AP Principles. These principles make The AP Program abundantly clear that we stand against censorship and indoctrination equally.

  4. Judd Gregg:

    Hillary has always been much more rational on these issues and much more mainstream, i presume she's going to get the nomination, but she may be contested from the left.

  5. Carrie Severino:

    What Justice Scalia is referring to is the 'mismatch theory' popularized by Stuart Taylor and Richard Sander in their book, the idea is that if a student is admitted to a school they are not academically prepared for then they will not perform up to their own potential. This is a theory -- contested of course -- but I don't want people to get the idea that it means that all black students are not as smart as white students, or even that they are not as well prepared across the board.

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