0 to compete in order to win something:
There are three world-class tennis players contending for this title.
He's contending against someone with twice his experience.
2 to compete in order to win something or to achieve a position of leadership:
3 to state as the truth; claim:
[ + that clause ] I contend that a novel should tell a story and tell it well.
As already noted, he contended that foreigners would strengthen the national organism by assimilating into it.
The best-known response to the ideal-world thesis contends that proposition (2) is not logically necessary.
What is important, he contends, is jurisdictional control.
The term "willful" seemed to escape proper notice, partially because the petitioners never contended that they had not acted willfully.
The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
She contends that it worked remarkably well, and it helped to secure the status of the estates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He contended that the preference was entirely aesthetic.
In practice, all kinds of balances were struck between these contending factors, but verbal explanations have been inadequate.
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