Phrase Hound found 9 phrases and 20 compound words that contain debate. The most common are listed below. Open debate in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 9
- Public debate
- Political debate
- balloon debateA debate in which a number of speakers compete to win the approval of an audience, who are invited to imagine that the speakers are flying in a sinking hot-air balloon, and someone must be thrown out if everyone is not to die.
- post-debateAlternative form of postdebate: After a debate.
- pre-debateAlternative form of predebate: Prior to a debate.
- self-debateAn internal debate between two parts of an individual's mind.
- debate broA male streamer who often engages in heated public political debates.
- debate brosplural of debate bro: A male streamer who often engages in heated public political debates.
- make-debateSomeone who instigates quarrels.
Compound words 20
- debatableOpen to debate; not fully proved or confirmed.
- debatelordA person who engages in debates solely with the intent to "win" rather than exchange ideas.
- pseudodebateSomething presented as a debate in which there is no real disagreement.
- nondebateAbsence of debate.
- outdebateTo surpass in debating.
- postdebateAfter a debate.
- predebatePrior to a debate.
- antidebateOpposing or stifling debate.
- debatabilitydebatableness
- DebategateA 1980s political scandal affecting the administration of Ronald Reagan, where Reagan's team somehow acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for a debate with Reagan.