arbitrate
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The board will apparently act as a sort of ombudsman that will arbitrate disputes between employees and management regarding “alleged reporting bias or failure to meet agreed reporting fairness standards.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
He said the review did not and “could not arbitrate on whether or not Israel has breached international humanitarian law”.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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
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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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
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
Even as it has become a forum for more sensational events, live and otherwise, it has said it does not want to be a media company that overly arbitrates what is posted on its site.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2017
Discussion and the general will arbitrates the question, and to this, private opinion yields with a good grace, and order is preserved uninterrupted.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man by Moncure Daniel Conway
And while she could still lose her team gold once the case is arbitrated later — and any other medal she wins — Valieva for now is cleared to pursue her Olympic dream.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
When she began working for Tesla, Barraza signed an agreement requiring any employment law claims be arbitrated outside of the court system.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 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
The average consumer, by contrast, had never before arbitrated a complaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2019
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
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 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
The arbitrating board consisted of three members from each of the two nations.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish
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