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Synonyms for contested
con·test·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
contestedadjective
disputed or made the object of contention or competition
"a contested election"
Antonyms:
uncontested
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "contested":
challenged, impugned, disputed, attacked, contentious, litigious, questioned, controversial, contestée, assaulted, objected, refuted, appealed
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#9520 | controversial | |
#9940 | attacked | |
#9958 | challenged | |
#12049 | questioned | |
#16941 | appealed | |
#17797 | disputed | |
#19971 | contested | |
#26097 | objected | |
#27806 | contentious | |
#29675 | assaulted | |
#49285 | refuted | |
#84984 | litigious | |
#104876 | impugned |
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Including Olympic qualifying matches, all FIFA and continental competitions are contested with 23 players per side, and only the Olympic tournament is limited to 18 players, the 18-man roster is archaic.
We have a very unusual situation here, we have a very highly contested election in just 60 days and we still don't know when we're going to a vaccine to get out of this mess.
The narrative that Courtney Irby went to Joseph Irby Lakeland apartment to get the guns to protect Courtney Irby and Courtney Irby children is false, while some have desperately tried to make this case about guns, folks on both sides of the issues have missed the real issue in this case : This is a case of a highly contested divorce action that has escalated to the point of both the husband and the wife being charged with crimes.
A contested election creates the perfect conditions for extremists to create chaos, to sow division, and to try to undermine our democratic institutions, all those are foundational goals for extremist movements across the board.
Subject to the resolution of certain critical issues, which the debtors believe can be resolved, the debtors view the REIT transaction as the superior path to exit because it would resolve the vast majority of contested issues in this case.
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