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What is the past tense of contend?

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The past tense of contend is contended.

The third-person singular simple present indicative form of contend is contends.

The present participle of contend is contending.

The past participle of contend is contended.

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It raises the question as to whether it is fair, just and reasonable to impose the duty contended for.
It is enough to say that we have always contended that it is right and proper that that decision is in the hands of the judges.
The advocates contended that their clients were unaware of the attempts to evict them because they were not notified.
The governor contended his only interest in importing the buses was to replace the capital's fleet of aging buses at a reasonable price.
Bedard had contended she was forced out of her job at Via after trying to blow the whistle on sponsorship-related activities she saw there.
Antithesis is not a facile device of rhetorical amplification, as the adversaries of Romanticism have contended.

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