Debate and Interview

Debate

Debate noun - A careful weighing of the reasons for or against something.

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Interview and debate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Interview" instead the word "Debate" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: debated, debatable, debater, debating

Interview noun - The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists.

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Debate and interview are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Debate" instead the word "Interview" as a noun or a verb.

live	live debate	live interview
full	full debate	full interview
long	long debate	long interview
brief	brief debate	brief interview
Other adjectives: public, formal, open, actual, entire, real, big, extensive, serious, infamous, new, final, above, last, lengthy, televised.

people	debate people	interview people
witnesses	debate witnesses	interview witnesses

In one episode, she and her husband debate whether she can succeed in a job interview without being good-looking.

Source: Hot Librarian
Burnie Burns stated in an interview that the setting of Blood Gulch Chronicles was real, but deliberately left the rest open to debate.

Source: Recursive Reality
No, Except Yes: One clip of an interview with Oswald about three months before the events in Dallasnote He was arrested in New Orleans for a brawl with a gang of anti-Castro Cuban militants and somehow got into a television debate as a result.

Source: Film / JFK

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