The phrase "a recent debate with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a discussion or argument that took place not long ago, typically involving differing opinions or viewpoints.
Example: "In a recent debate with the environmental activists, the politician defended his stance on climate change policies."
Alternatives: "a recent discussion with" or "a recent argument with".
His thoughts come from a recent debate with Robert Winston - and you can read both of their viewpoints here.
At a recent debate with The Economist in New York, Ms Klein drew a sell-out crowd of 1,000, with hundreds more turned away.
"If the Islamic spectrum goes from Bin Laden to Erdogan, which of them is Islam?" Mr. Ghannouchi asked in a recent debate with a secular critic.
In a recent debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump pressed his claim that the chair of the US Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, was politically motivated.
"Do you think that President Clinton should be condemned for the rest of his life based on a mistake he made in his life?" Sanford asked during a recent debate with his opponent, the Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
Mr. McClintock, who has become so enraged by these charges that he withdrew from a recent debate with Mr. Ose, has in turn accused his competitor of being too liberal.
They take a libertarian approach to homeland security that is rarely heard nationally; Jon Tester, in a recent debate, said, "With things like the Patriot Act, we'd damn well better keep our guns". And, contrary to the myth that Westerners are opposed to all environmental regulation, they tend to be conservationists.
A recent debate deals with the question of whether proof objects have a purely ontological status or whether they codify knowledge, even if they are not epistemic acts themselves.
Before a recent debate on Capitol Hill with John Kerry (reporters were promised a "smack-down"), Kerry seemed flustered when Gingrich shifted the debate from the basic science to a discussion of market-based solutions to the problem.
("You talk about how it's nice to know we're on the right track, that we have the same moral and legal framework as the rest of the world," he said in a recent debate on the subject with Stephen Breyer at American University's law school.
On Monday he talked himself into a tangle when reporters pressed him about his comment at a recent debate that he had served with gay soldiers in the military, as he defended the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
