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
Instead, Wilhelm learned that the fate of his bet was up to a loosely organized body of cryptocurrency holders empowered to arbitrate such disputes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
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
He arbitrates disputes, much like any TV judge, but his show lacks the self-serious demeanor of other shows that try to replicate a real-life courtroom, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
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
The discount chain and its parent, Dollar Tree, arbitrated 1,135 cases in 2020 — nearly a third of all U.S. cases — compared with three the year before.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 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
In addition to sports, Mr. Nicolau arbitrated disputes in aviation, communications and entertainment.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2020
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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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
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 Fox News ● Sep. 10, 2021
The pope arbitrating on the matter declared that the islands belonged to Spain, but gave special privileges to Germany.
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