Meaning & use
Contentions
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Assertions or claims put forward, typically in an argument or debate, as being true.
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The lawyer's central contention was that the contract had never been legally binding.
Several of the study's contentions were later disputed by other researchers.
A note on using this word
Contentions can also refer more broadly to states of disagreement or rivalry, as in 'a bone of contention,' meaning a persistent source of dispute.
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