How to pronounce contested
Listen to contested in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“contested” in real sentences
828 clips in the index · 106 American · 333 British · 20 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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a contested election Sultan
Oxford Union · hear it here
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Education is highly contested.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Territory was savagely contested.
British Library · hear it here
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work or RIT is rarely contested on the campus very rarely contested and but
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of contested. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.