arbitrate
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The program also includes legal benefits, including the ability to arbitrate disputes abroad at independent tribunals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Internet providers have been thrust into the unwelcome position of having to arbitrate disputes between copyright holders and alleged infringers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
It's hard to say, and I will leave it to more influential jungle heads, and the infinitely wise question setters on University Challenge, to arbitrate.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
The new law will take effect when it’s published in the country’s official bulletin, at which time courts will no longer arbitrate what journalists can write.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Beloved had sat down with her and Redemption during their first big fight, when they were thirteen, to arbitrate.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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Bodner challenged his firing soon after with Finra, which arbitrates employment disputes brought by brokers and advisers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
So the Advisory Commission, which arbitrates between the victims of spoliation and the holders of disputed cultural property, is often claimants’ only recourse.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2021
European leaders appealed to the World Trade Organisation, which arbitrates in trade disputes, and won.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2018
Instead, they’re pushing for a complete overhaul of the system by which the university arbitrates sexual harassment claims.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2017
It bothered her; she didn't know whether it was impudence or admiration; but when a woman arbitrates on a case she is interested in, she always gives an award in her own favour.
From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
He arbitrated salary disputes in baseball, of which he is a lifelong fan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Harvey’s a former New Jersey Attorney General who has arbitrated other league cases.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Apart from stating that arbitrated payments to publishers must be made in lump sums, the new amendments also clarify that the panel must consider costs incurred by the platforms and by the news businesses.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
In addition to sports, Mr. Nicolau arbitrated disputes in aviation, communications and entertainment.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2020
I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople’s grievances and arbitrated and ruled.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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Finally, in 1872, with Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm arbitrating, the San Juan Islands were granted to the United States.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
The academy, charged with coining Hebrew words to keep up with the times and maintaining grammatical standards, finds itself arbitrating between linguistic anarchy and societal change.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
For more than a decade, "Judge Judy" has been syndication's most popular show with the tart-talking New Yorker arbitrating small claims cases.
From Fox News ● Sep. 10, 2021
The newly-founded United Nations generally failed to prevent the outbreak of war despite its nominal goal of arbitrating peaceful solutions for international problems.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
She is continually arbitrating and making adjustments, always ready to listen to childish woes and to allay them when she can.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor
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