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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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
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
McDonald’s said the suit was being filed with the administrative court, which arbitrates in governance disputes in Italy.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2016
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
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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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
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
But in 1815, with Pope Pius VII arbitrating restitution demands, the French, did give Italy a painting in exchange — not “The Wedding Feast,” but Charles Le Brun’s “The Feast in the House of Simon.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 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
In that country the arbitrating body is known as the court of arbitration, the decisions of which are absolute and binding.
From Problems in American Democracy by Thames Ross Williamson
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