0 present participle of contend --
1 to compete in order to win something: --
He's contending against someone with twice his experience.
There are three world-class tennis players contending for this title.
If ideology is not a contending factor in national politics, what is?
Theoretical advances and past research evidence can inform the selection of contending hypotheses and the prior probabilities assigned to them.
They present evidence from neural network modeling, contending that cognitive neuroscience has no definitive answers.
And yet this article ends by contending that, even if barbecue's resistance discourse have fallen into a very deep trap set for them.
The media, rather, need to be understood as sites for struggle between contending influences.
Looked at superficially, almost total immobility seems to have been secured by the contending forces.
Within the latter dimension, we argue that citizens can emphasize two types of criteria when they gauge the likely outcomes of contending political options.
Existing work on family, kinship, and household size and composition reflects different concerns, and so assigning pedigree risks oversimplifying contending views.
