Sample Sentences forcontroversy (editor-reviewed)
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The film benefited from the controversy.controversy = disagreement
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She withdrew from nomination due to the controversy surrounding her taxes.
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During a controversy of this character, Jeems Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham on deeds and things, but she was really a Coningham, she was an uncertain speller, a seldom reader, and was given to looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front gallery in the evening. (source)
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Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. ... The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! (source)controversy = disputes where there is strong disagreement
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Though 85 percent of Joetsu residents donated to the park fund, the plan generated heated controversy. (source)controversy = disagreement
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There was some controversy over the burial, because of Megan's supposed role in the child's death.† (source)
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Because of the controversy, we delayed doing the operation.† (source)
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We're aware of the controversies surrounding the Harrises and Klebolds.† (source)
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But Mr. Madison, trying so hard to contain the controversy, looked tired.† (source)
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It was the cause of bitter controversies.† (source)
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In Waco, as he remembered, he had caused controversy because he never seemed to sleep.† (source)
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Everyone loved the princesses because of their great beauty, their gentle ways, and their ability to settle all controversies fairly and reasonably.† (source)
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The warm-blooded controversy had raged for fifteen years, before a new perception of dinosaurs as quick-moving, active animals was accepted—but not without lasting animosities.† (source)
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Maybe the reason war and all that other stuff went away is that there are no more controversies, no disagreements, no people demanding change.† (source)
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There has been much controversy regarding the 126th Annual Peace Festival due to the emperor's illness, but Prince Kaito has told the press that the festival will continue as scheduled and that he hopes it might bring some joy in this otherwise tragic time.† (source)
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In March 1995 I received a call from an editor at Outside magazine proposing that I join a guided Everest expedition scheduled to depart five days hence and write an article about the mushrooming commercialization of the mountain and the attendant controversies.† (source)
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