Debate
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Mordecai and Rigby try to prevent their replacements from finishing their work by having them debate who would win in a fight between a two-headed dinosaur and a robotic Bigfoot.
Source: Hypothetical Fight Debate - The rest of the troupe debate whether to break the door down to prevent her committing suicide.
Source: Germanic Depressives - OK, maybe some people are too eager to enter a debate, letting their hobby horse trample all over it, but "debaiting" as a method to prevent this sounds rather fishy.
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Prevent and Debate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/debate/prevent
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