“Now those who have attained even a little expertise in disputation and argument could reply to that on my behalf.”

“Politics defines the world of means subordinate to ends, of instrumental complexes, of conflict, disputation and strife.”

“Religion, by contrast, is a principal site of impassioned argument and disputation.”

“The dispute over the realities of climate change has been ongoing for many years.”

“A mediator was engaged to settle the dispute between the two factions amicably.”

“He mentioned, too, the increasing disputatiousness of New York's board of directors.”

“A penchant for disputatiousness has led to numerous quarrels with fellow radicals, including Foreman.”

“Remarkably the literary product of such disputatiousness eventually became Scripture, that is, books with normative quality for the community.”

“He was an enthusiast of the extreme type, an intense, unwearying student, a fiery disputant, a keen logician, whose harsh, ascetic nature and imperious will stand out from the background of his unquestioned purity of life.”

“Do not confuse one who is contending earnestly for the faith with the disputer of this age.”

“By contrast, when we turn to Gongsun Long, we encounter a disputer who may have been devoted to sophistry purely for sophistry's sake.”

“The disputer could cite features of different kinds of things by which they could be treated as similar or features of things of the same kind by which they could be treated as different.”

“He was known to be a terror for demolishing opponents in public disputations.”

“Controversy is an inevitable element of medical progress, but sometimes it degenerates into doubtful disputations.”

“Let us, as Americans, examine Moore's arguments, weigh his disputations, and come to a fuller understanding of the issues he discusses.”

“But these terms, profoundly limiting as they are, are actually touchstones that disputants in the periodical debate would recognize.”

“The social scientist analyzes the interchanges of the disputants from the standpoint that there is a correct position and an incorrect one.”

“Likewise, the King regularly calls the disputants, his subjects, thou in the singular and you in the plural.”