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Contest in sentence

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But I will also contest that I'm not as nervous as I should be because I'm pretty sure I'm right about this.
So it's an online contest where it's only five thousand dollars if you come up with and innovative way of implementing justice.
I started a contest four years ago called Dance Your Ph.D. Instead of explaining their research with words, scientists have to explain it with dance.
The most surprising thing that I've learned while running this contest is that some scientists are now working directly with dancers on their research.
And in fact, lots of people, scientists, will contest that it was really different.
And they will contest this because the evidence presented in an earlier mode is not in the way they would like the evidence presented.
It is a contest of who is the toughest on migrants, the most willing to impose travel bans and the most eager to propose projects in building walls.
I want to tell you about a very bizarre contest that is held every spring in New York City.
And I had gone to cover this contest a few years back as a science journalist, expecting, I guess, that this was going to be like the Superbowl of savants.
Everybody who competes in this contest will tell you that they have just an average memory.
One of the last places on Earth where you still find people passionate about this idea of a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory, is at this totally singular memory contest.
And you'd come up with some sort of crazy, ridiculous, unforgettable image, to remind you that the first thing you want to talk about is this totally bizarre contest.
The problem was that a memory contest is a pathologically boring event.
I ended up coming back to that same contest that I had covered a year earlier, and I had this notion that I might enter it, sort of as an experiment in participatory journalism.
So this turned into a contest.
It turned into a 24-hour contest.
He takes his geological data, he publishes it and he holds a contest on the Internet called the Goldcorp Challenge.
Here's my story: I was an eighth grader and I entered a drawing contest at school in Gyeongbokgung.
This is a beautiful data set of 9,000 people who wrote in to three newspapers and magazines that had a contest.
The contest said, send in your numbers and whoever is close to two-thirds of the average will win a big prize.
I even went to the Miss Deaf America contest in Nashville, Tennessee, where people complained about that slurry Southern signing.
And I wonder what the point is and then I know, and I see that Hy Meyerowitz, Rick Meyerowitz's father, a dry-cleaning supply salesman from the Bronx, won the Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in 1931.
There is no galvanizing contest like the Cold War, no politician like John Kennedy who can heroize the difficult and the dangerous, and no popular science fictional mythology such as exploring the solar system.
You're not threatening us or bribing us, suggesting that we resolve the issue with a show of hands or a beauty contest.
You look at supermarket sales of 30-centimeter pies that are frozen, and apple wins, no contest.
You know that NIM has already computed all possible outcomes of the contest, and will play in a way that maximizes its chance of success.
RM: The city ran a contest and gathered a bunch of submissions with all kinds of designs.
Management by talent contest has routinely pitted employees against each other.
It used to be a contest between states.
So in this new contest between states and non-states, military power can win some battles, but it will not give us peace nor stability.
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