bitter debate

collocation in English

meaningsofbitteranddebate

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bitter
adjective
uk
/ˈbɪt.ər/us
/ˈbɪt̬.ɚ/
Someone who is bitter is angry and unhappy because they cannot forget bad things that happened in ...
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debate
noun
uk
/dɪˈbeɪt/us
/dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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(Definition ofbitteranddebatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Central to centuries of contestation was the notion of usage and thebitterdebateover whether this involved legal right or tolerated privilege.
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I hope that it will not start backed by just a small majority after abitterdebatein another place.
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That was a far rougher and morebitterdebatethan anything that we see in our time.
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There wasbitterdebateon the convention floor regarding the accusations.
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The proposal to build the dam was the focus of abitterdebateduring the 1920s between two groups.
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Offit also touches on the heated andbitterdebatesurrounding vaccine claims.
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In the months leading to the election there wasbitterdebatebetween the two candidates over which party members were eligible to vote.
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The proposal prompted abitterdebate, with critics questioning the appropriateness of a labor organization's endorsement of an organization which promoted labor loyalty to the government.
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Wilson's application of evolutionary analysis to human behavior causedbitterdebate.
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I think that if he would remember that we might have less bitter debates.
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During peacetime there have been bitter debates on defence, great conflicts of opinion, and they arose because free people are naturally pacific.
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It had fierce and bitter debates.
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The two leaders and their movements squared off in several bitter debates.
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This reform provoked bitter debates over the role of the state in society and the relations between church and state.
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This is because it is not clear that anything new has come out of the old, bitter debates.
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