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contend as in: She contended that...
Her lawyer contends that the contract isn’t valid.
Her lawyer contends that the contract isn’t valid.
She contends that they quoted her out of context.
He stopped, satisfied that he had proved his contention.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
Whose idealism could survive all that? A good bit of evidence exists to support Linderman’s contention that it did not survive.
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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When Colonel Lloyd’s slaves met the slaves of Jacob Jepson, they seldom parted without a quarrel about their masters; Colonel Lloyd’s slaves contending that he was the richest, and Mr. Jepson’s slaves that he was the smartest, and most of a man.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Do you know, Mr. Proctor, that the entire contention of the state in these trials is that the voice of Heaven is speaking through the children?
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
PUTNAM—at the moment he is intent upon getting Parris, for whom he has only contempt, to move toward the abyss: Mr. Parris, I have taken your part in all contention here, and I would continue; but I cannot if you hold back in this.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
The dis—United States would fragment into several petty, squabbling autocracies, proving the contention of European monarchists and reactionaries that this harebrained experiment in democracy could not last.
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
I contend, that ... wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure …
Socrates
He contends that the styles shouldn’t be mixed.
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He contended that Communism had no future
We will not dispute it; my contention was absurd.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Notes from the Underground
It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
Shaw, George Bernard -- Pygmalion
The justice of her contention came abruptly home to Sheldon.
London, Jack -- Adventure
Strangely enough, I can give evidence that will demolish one contention of the prosecution.
Christie, Agatha -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles