arbitrate
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The data on which image recognition and generative models are based rely on statistics and probability to arbitrate the truth.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
It offers legal benefits, including the ability to arbitrate disputes abroad at independent tribunals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
The complexities mean courts and tribunals have frequently been called on to arbitrate.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025
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
He took charge, stripping away the right to strike and appointing Judge Samuel Alschuler as federal administrator to arbitrate all disputes between the packers and the union.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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She arbitrates among the parties, first for outright dismissal and then for a more reasonable, so to speak, ransom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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 Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
In the most generous interpretation, it was about establishing a shared public space in which facts could be arbitrated and knowing that you could also be wrong.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
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
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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Plaintiffs attorneys, legislators and patients say that Kaiser’s private and confidential process for arbitrating legal disputes over medical care still has key flaws that favor Kaiser over patients bringing malpractice cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
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
Other kinds of transportation workers who typically do not cross state lines may use Monday's decision to argue that they also are exempt from arbitrating wage lawsuits.
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 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 Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
The agreement also includes methods for arbitrating differences.
From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth
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