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dispute

[dih-spyoot] / dɪˈspjut /




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On Wednesday, a day after The Times reported on the dispute, the city said it was reinstating its previous agreement with the league, allowing children to return to its baseball fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The dispute dates back to March when management announced plans to cut up to 100 posts, blaming a sharp fall in income from international students.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

There’s no dispute that the president has the authority to grant news organizations exclusive interviews.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

IHH says it isn’t subject to financial claims in the dispute involving Daiichi Sankyo and former Fortis promoters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Yet the devilry is in the details, and as I delved deeper, I discovered that the money in dispute was connected to another victim of the Reign of Terror, George Bigheart.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The project became the subject of years of legal disputes.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Often the disputes center on this question of why did the government do what it did.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

Contemporary disputes involve the right of innocent passage through other countries’ territorial waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Sarago said that, thankfully, she had not had any trust disputes go to court in her practice — but plenty were renegotiated over time.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

But an exam given at the University of Georgia in the fall of 2001 disputes that idea.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

That signal helped the team resolve evolutionary trees that had remained disputed for decades.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

His coronation follows the death of King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV and comes amid a disputed succession, with questions raised over who should inherit the throne.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Carmen Balber, executive director of Consumer Watchdog, a Los Angeles advocacy group that co-sponsored both bills, disputed Newsom’s reasoning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Life Surge has strongly disputed the characterization of its business as predatory.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Moreover, no fighting ever occurs except in the disputed areas round the Equator and the Pole; no invasion of enemy territory is ever undertaken.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Education Department and her loan servicer, as well as disputing her credit report, to get the situation corrected.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Tax Court, disputing the agency’s claim that they made missteps with grantor-retained annuity trusts, or GRATs, which they used to shift money to their three daughters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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

We argued that the government shouldn’t be allowed to punish American citizens while forbidding them from publicly disputing the accusations, aside from grave matters of national security.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

It had been by denying what I saw with my eyes, disputing what I felt with my body, that I had managed to keep my identity intact.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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