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Pronounce Contend as K OW N T EH N D.

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    Contend phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'contend'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of contend: /koʊntɛnd/
    • Modern IPA representation of contend: /cɒntɛnd/

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    List of meaning for contend

    to argue or challenge

    contend, postulate(verb)

    maintain or assert

    "He contended that Communism had no future"

    argue, contend, debate, fence(verb)

    have an argument about something

    contest, contend, repugn(verb)

    to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation

    "They contested the outcome of the race"

    cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage(verb)

    come to terms with

    "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"

    compete, vie, contend(verb)

    compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

    contend, fight, struggle(verb)

    be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

    "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"

    to engage in a contest

    two traditional rivals contending for the championship

    to state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration

    contended that the senator's considerable experience made him the best candidate

    to state as a fact usually forcefully

    contended that his opponent was wrong about practically everything

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    contend in sentence

    1. After the call was made against his team, the coach tried to contend with the stubborn referee.

    2. During the trial, the defense attorney will contend his client is innocent because he was out of state when the murder was committed.

    3. The politician who lost the election will contend his loss occurred because a number of absentee ballots were accidentally destroyed.

    4. Many of the politicians who are opposing the bill contend it will harm the middle class.

    5. When the police arrived on the scene, they had to contend with the dog who was acting as a sentinel over its owner’s dead body.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term contend

    The complex array of threats and, let's call it geopolitical jockeying, requires all of us to contend with an unpredictable landscape.

    – Martin Dempsey

    Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

    – Thomas Fuller

    One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

    – Jean Kerr

    I didn't have my 'A' game this week, and to contend in a major with no game, really, I take the positive from that, i worked really hard to be in this situation with my game this week. Obviously didn't quite have it early, but did a brilliant job of hanging around.

    – Justin Rose

    We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring.

    – Rev. Jesse Jackson

    There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less -- a slower-track school where they do well, one of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas.

    – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

    I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

    – Gertrude Stein

    I want to see CBH transition to a commercialized, corporatized entity to give it the extra capacity that it needs to contend with all the new dynamics in the grain market.

    – Gary McGill

    More than 165 million Americans enjoy video games, and billions of people play video games worldwide, yet other societies, where video games are played as avidly, do not contend with the tragic levels of violence that occur in the U.S.

    – Entertainment Software Association

    Suddenly we had people with thousands of acres while others had to contend with a few hundred or less.

    – Mary Nkaru

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