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What is the verb for contention?

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contest
  1. (intransitive) To contend.
  2. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
  3. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
  4. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The violator is then given an opportunity to respond, defend the content in question, and contest the size of the fine.”
      “There remain the most basic unanswered questions about why nations contest the issues they contest and why they even care about them.”
      “He said at no time did he campaign for the position from any association and saw no need to get disappointed because he was just asked to contest the position.”
contend
  1. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
  2. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
  3. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “We have to contend against the best horses of other nations in this race.”
      “He wants to contend that the difference between Mark Twain and Howard Stern is a matter of kind and not just degree.”
      “They are learning what works, and what doesn't, when fliers must contend with unsteady airflows and with airfoils that continuously deform.”
contested
contending
contends
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contend
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  3. Examples:
    1. “On this appeal the Claimant contends that the Judge was wrong and should not in any event have decided the point summarily.”
      “Jacobs contends that both animal husbandry and agriculture were most likely to have originated in the earliest urban settlements.”
      “The Afrocentrist contends that passion can never be a substitute for argument as argument should not be a substitute for passion.”
contests
contesteth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of contest
contendeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of contend
contendest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of contend
contended
  1. simple past tense and past participle of contend
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  3. Examples:
    1. “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.”
      “It raises the question as to whether it is fair, just and reasonable to impose the duty contended for.”
contesting
  1. present participle of contest
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But a few months later, he was back, contesting the by-election held to find a new member to fill the seat he had vacated in disgrace.”
      “The EC should debar him from contesting elections for violating the model code of conduct.”
      “West got away, followed by one other rider, with the rest of the field contesting a very close and tactical bunch sprint in Ramsey town.”
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