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arbitrate

[ahr-bi-treyt] / ˈɑr bɪˌtreɪt /


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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

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

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

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

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

He is not just who arbitrates by will.

From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Frank Lee Woodward

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

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

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

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

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 mocked young man glided off entirely dejected; and the more so, as he learned that Seer Krokus was in Poland, arbitrating the disputes of some contending Grandees.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle




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