contested terrain

collocation in English

meaningsofcontestandterrain

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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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terrain
noun[U]
uk
/təˈreɪn/us
/təˈreɪn/
an area of land, when considering its ...
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(Definition ofcontestandterrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Social scientists need to investigate thiscontestedterrain.
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While the ultimate decision may remaincontestedterrain, it is nevertheless possible to summarise the general arguments for and against the regulation of assisted living.
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Through their responses, salsa emerges as acontestedterrainof struggle in which identities are articulated, disarticulated and rearticulated.
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Affirmative action is verycontestedterrain.
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What constitutes acceptable moral ends for morally significant social mechanisms such as criminal process is - and always has been - highlycontestedterrain.
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As numerous urban theorists have argued, city spaces arecontestedterrainon which different groups struggle to inscribe different meanings.
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A social hierarchy exists in modern and developing societies not as a sociological certitude but as an essentiallycontestedterrain.
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Leisure too was a highlycontestedterrain.
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Positing that urban space iscontestedterrain, he argues persuasively for an approach that puts politics centre stage.
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Marketing ethics is alsocontestedterrain, beyond the previously described issue of potential conflicts between profitability and other concerns.
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He believes that popular culture iscontestedterrainin which social and economic groups struggle to make their marks on society.
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However, they also recognize that remixing as a form of composition inhabits acontestedterrainof creativity, intellectual property, authorship, corporate ownership, and power.
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