dispute
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A bitter succession dispute has erupted in one of Uganda's traditional kingdoms, days before the burial of its late king, who until his death had been the world's youngest reigning monarch.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The court issued a brief order Thursday to end a dispute that Justice Brett Kavanaugh had already tried to settle earlier this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Yet rental providers dispute that holiday lets are to blame for rising house prices.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The dispute traces back to 2009, when AMC contracted with Kirkman for the TV rights to his comic book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
A century later, in the years after 1653, there was a bitter dispute between Thomas Bartholin and Olof Rudbeck over the discovery of the human lymphatic system.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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A spokesperson for Pearce said the company disputes Lineage’s allegations that Pearce caused the fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The court -- which rules on legal disputes between countries -- has already thrown out a request by Nicaragua to impose emergency measures on Germany, notably to stop arms exports to Israel.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
This year former engineer turned social media geologist Luisa Hendry will be on hand to study the stones and, if necessary, settle disputes.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Quintanilla family is taking their personal disputes to the public.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Although they never permitted matters to come to bloodshed, they still fostered these quarrels between them so that those citizens would not unite against them, being busy with their own disputes.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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The two countries have revived a high-level dialogue on their disputed boundary by special representatives and come to agreements on military patrols in two disputed areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
More than 40 years after the war over the territory, sovereignty of the archipelago in the south-west Atlantic Ocean remains hotly disputed between Britain and Argentina.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Proponents of the bill, including traffic safety groups and the state’s insurance industry, disputed telematics violated Proposition 103.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Navy has disputed some of the reporting, with Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao calling accounts of the crew’s struggles dishonest.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
They had been together then, Sergio and his mom—no one disputed that—living in a shelter in Albany.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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Thompson spent months asking for clarity about the added charges—and disputing some—and eventually wound up paying about $6,000 out of pocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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
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
This makes July 10, 2026, the red-letter day because taxpayers usually have three years after filing a return to make a claim disputing a penalty, according to Collins.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 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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