dispute
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Art of Play said it has contacted Clarkson privately in hopes of clearing up the dispute.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The object at the center of the dispute was Molly, a mechanical yellow bird mounted on the store’s wall and used in its magic shows.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The videos, which are often under a minute, might depict a scene from a living room or highlight a domestic dispute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The current dispute between China and Taiwan dates to a civil war between the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, who retreated to the island in 1949 after being defeated by Mao Zedong's communist fighters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
The new battle became an argument between catastrophism and uniformitarianism–unattractive terms for an important and very long-running dispute.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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It was a body set up to resolve parading disputes, not to restart them.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
It is often confused with the International Court of Justice, also based in The Hague, which settles disputes between countries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Rather than forming a single scale that runs from minor disputes to lethal attacks, different types of aggression may arise under different social and evolutionary pressures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
In this video, The Wall Street Journal analyzes Albanian court documents, travels to the development areas and speaks to the villagers at the heart of disputes over land ownership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The League had some success in humanitarian work and in settling minor disputes.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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Ortiz said Byrd showed up late and unprepared for Ortiz Jara’s June 5 court date, which Byrd disputed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Webull disputed a congressional committee’s findings about its ties to China, saying the report contained inaccuracies and unsupported conclusions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Whitehall sources have not disputed that the decision from Washington to remove the bombers was in response to the incident at the airbase in Gloucestershire.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
United has previously disputed the accuracy of the Journal’s reporting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
We had disputed mildly over the need for woolens.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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The group has been disputing those allegations in court filings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a settlement agreement reached last year, Conservice agreed to provide any California tenant disputing their bill with copies of invoices and formulas used to determine their specific charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The CMS system had added the outstanding amount, and some arrears he had been disputing, to his continuing payments to come up with the new figure.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Becerra has defended his record at HHS, arguing that the Trump administration had left the agency ill-equipped to care for so many children and disputing the number of unaccompanied minors who were “lost.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Wittgenstein’s whole undertaking, as interpreted by the sociologists, is directed at disputing the idea that there can be perception independent of enunciation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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