contested area

collocation in English

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contest
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.test/us
/ˈkɑːn.test/
a competition to do better than other people, usually in which prizes ...
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area
noun
uk
/ˈeə.ri.ə/us
/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition ofcontestandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In spite of all centralizing and moralizing tendencies, civic liberties were successfully defended, even in a highlycontestedarealike public houses.
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However, the link between urban density and aspects of sustainability remains acontestedareaof planning theory.
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The playing field consists of a home zone for each player and onecontestedarea.
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Together with the body, time and space are important and contested areas of colonial daily life.
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These areas are then contested in local battles, which are often complicated, and may result in the expansion, reduction, or wholesale capture and loss of thecontestedarea.
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All previously contested areas were secured by the army.
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Thousands of land mines remain buried in the previously contested areas.
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Hundreds of civilians, mostly women and children, were streaming out of the contested areas during lulls in the fighting, leaving behind a city in ruins.
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Despite these similarities, the relationship with development is one of the most contested areas of human security.
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The two sites were unreachable due to being in contested areas of the ongoing civil war.
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On more than one occasion the operators did not have time to transport their equipment away from contested areas, and had to abandon the stations where they were.
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Light blue areas are contested areas.
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