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Surprisingly, David loves Cate - she likes stimulating debates

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I believe the answer is:

devilsadvocate

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'she likes stimulating debates' is the definition.
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'surprisingly david loves cate' is the wordplay.
'surprisingly' is an anagram indicator (a surprising ordering of the letters).
'david'+'loves'='davidloves'
'davidloves' is an anagram of 'devilsadvo'.
'devilsadvo'+'cate'='DEVILS ADVOCATE'

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