| support contention | 6.39 | The numbers support that contention. | ||
| dispute contention | 5.86 | Ford disputes that contention. | ||
| reject contention | 3.09 | We reject these contentions. | ||
| deny contention | 2.57 | Serbs deny such contentions. | ||
| dismiss contention | 1.25 | Ri dismissed that contention. | ||
| repeat contention | 1.18 | Fehr repeated his contention that the owners wanted to force a strike. | ||
| bolster contention | 1.12 | That contention is bolstered by the Yankee Group report. | ||
| reiterate contention | 0.86 | He reiterated his contention that he is the victim of a political plot. | ||
| back contention | 0.66 | Replays backed that contention. | ||
| challenge contention | 0.59 | Some scientists challenge his contentions, though. | ||
| prove contention | 0.46 | Speth contends that he has photographs of the tissue to prove his contention. | ||
| refute contention | 0.46 | Nothing has happened in her case to refute that contention. | ||
| underscore contention | 0.46 | The Bush campaign howled that the story underscored its contention that Gore has trouble telling the truth. | ||
| accept contention | 0.33 | That contention is not accepted uncritically by others in the industry. | ||
| confirm contention | 0.33 | The figure does tend to confirm my contention that the general order of magnitude is about right. | ||
| dramatize contention | 0.33 | His purpose was to dramatize his contention that welfare and Medicaid were far better places to cut. | ||
| address contention | 0.26 | She only vaguely addressed defense contentions. | ||
| base contention | 0.26 | He based his contentions largely on media reports of interviews with Cotey. | ||
| buttress contention | 0.26 | Exxon uses these examples to buttress its contention that the sound is back to normal. | ||
| echo contention | 0.26 | At a news conference in Miami last Thursday, lawyers for Lama and Hernandez echoed that contention. |