"vivid debate" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to an exchange of ideas that is vocal, energetic, and or intense. For example, "The company held a vivid debate about how to best approach the new project."
We will have a vivid debate in my country whether we will join this banking union.
Mr. Van Rompuy mentioned the "vivid debate" over "fiscal policy and the pace of fiscal consolidation" in his remarks.
A vivid debate exists on whether or not forests formerly covered the GS and on the potential role of anthropogenic fires in the establishment of present-day savannas.
There is a vivid debate on whether this is a global phenomenon, on which factors explain the decline, and on the broader societal implications of these trends in the context of the transformation toward a low-carbon society.
The detection of planets orbiting close binary stars1,2,3 has fuelled a vivid debate on whether such environments can be suited for life as we know it.
In Brussels on Monday, the European Council president, Herman Van Rompuy, acknowledged the "vivid" debate over how to conduct fiscal policy, but reiterated the Continent's commitment to its present strategy.
In the bright and spacious lounge, a few weeks ago, I observed eclectic groups of young people (EHL counts 115 nationalities this year), dressed to the nines, their laptops open and seemingly engaged in vivid debates.
The shooting has sparked an intense debate over whether incendiary political talk across the country -- punctuated with references to guns and the blood of slain politicians -- is a real danger, or merely vivid political rhetoric.
There were no direct clashes between the candidates, no traces of personal animus — but a debate it was, the first vivid disputation over policy in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
The conclusions of Nardi et al. [ 6] resulted in a vivid scientific debate, and many studies have addressed the phylogenetic placement of Collembola since then.
MT metal specificity is a subject of vivid, current debate [ 16], as to a larger or lesser extent, all MTs show a degree of metal specificity in native and/or in vivo environments.
