The phrase "became contested" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used in different contexts to describe a situation in which something was once accepted or uncontested, but has now become the subject of disagreement or debate. Example: After the politician's controversial statement, the election became contested as voters were divided on their opinions of the candidate.
And in the process, Times Square became contested territory.
As standards of grooming became contested, a series of federal cases arose out of rules that regulated the way high-school boys wore their hair.
He was the last nominee before the Reagan years, when confirmations became contested territory in the culture wars (and he was also, not coincidentally, the last whose confirmation hearings were not broadcast live on television).
In recent years, Howard Milstein tried to develop a one-million-square-foot tower on the site, but it became contested territory in a feud between different wings of the Milstein family.
Although these results were widely accepted, they became contested by Greek astronomer Eugène M. Antoniadi, English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and others as merely imagined features.
But as soon as I press on how this charming man could have caused such offence, every point becomes contested.
One's own body becomes contested territory, not just in terms of biochemistry but in terms of the claims that are made on it.
The Reagan legacy did, in fact, become contested ground in the decade after Reagan's departure, as these groups waged a fight for primacy.
Well, whatever, you'd better get ready, because your wrist is about to become contested techno-media space, like your living room, your pocket or your bag.
If issues of responsibility challenge established criteria of what constitutes scientific excellence and these are no longer in the autonomous domain of agents who actively participate in the practices of science, their very professional identity becomes contested, and congruency between different types of agency is interrupted.
The "religion of the Republic" had therefore become contested ground.
