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Debate

Debate meaning

To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. | To fight. | To engage in combat for; to strive for.

Example sentences (20)

The Debate events include Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Policy Debate, and Parliamentary Debate.

The debate formats sponsored by the NFL include Policy Debate (Cross-Examination), Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, and Student Congress.

Halfway through the debate, Ava Nicholas, a sophomore political science major at the PSSA watch party, said she felt better about this debate than the previous presidential debate in September.

Trump boasts that he won the debate, and it was his best debate ever — yet says he doesn't want a second debate with Harris.

Debate, debate, debate; argue, argue, argue — that’s the democratic Rx, it seems to me after all these years.

WMUR-ABC-Apple News debate (Manchester, N.H.) … New Hampshire primary … NBC News-MSNBC-Nevada Independent debate in Las Vegas … CBS/CBC Institute debate in Charleston, S.C. … South Carolina primary.

All ranked below 7% in a post-debate Economist/YouGov poll, which also found that 34% of Republicans thought Pence had done “poorly” in the debate, despite his at-times dominant performance.

DeSantis's decision to debate Newsom "paid off," according to University of Michigan debate director Aaron Kall.

Inevitably, as part of that debate, there will be discussion about the extensive work of (Indigenous justice campaigners) Marcia Langton and Tom Calma, extensive debate, about what a Voice to Parliament might look like in terms of regional structures.

Kennedy is right that Peter Hotez should debate him on the truth about vaccines, and, for the same reason, he should be willing to have a “respectful, congenial, informative debate” about Israeli impunity and the legitimacy of Zionist colonialism.

No candidate has officially met the polling threshold for the second debate yet, according to POLITICO’s analysis, because there has not yet been enough polls released that meet the RNC’s methodological requirements for the second debate.

Once I ruled that the motion could not be voted down before a debate the only other thing left was for the debate.

Scott stalled in the weeks leading up to the debate, then he went to Milwaukee and underwhelmed on the debate stage.

She said: "If Sinn Fein wish to debate law and order, if Sinn Fein wish to debate how we can support the gardai, I have no problem in standing over Fine Gael's record of law and order, Fine Gael's record of supporting members of An Garda Siochana.

The first primary debate between presidential aspirants was held in 1948, when two Republicans seeking to depose Democratic President Harry Truman in an audio-only radio debate hosted in Portland, Oregon.

The qualifying window for the Iowa debate closes on January 2 and the New Hampshire debate qualifying period ends on January 16.

There is an important and complex debate to be had about the law of war in 1945, and the brutalization caused by years of conflict, but it is not necessary to conclude the debate for us to judge the bombings.

They are here for constant debate, constant argument, conflict and debate.

To defend himself against those accusations, Roe pointed to a leaked debate memo, which advised DeSantis to mention his wife at the first debate.

A billboard advertising the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the debate's press filing center in Philadelphia, Sept. 9, 2024.