dispute
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The dispute led to a stand-off between Orangemen and nationalist residents of the Garvaghy Road in Portadown lasting almost two weeks.
From BBC ● 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 Game 3 finale was disrupted by a fan interference call—what is it with overenthusiastic Yankee fans and outfield walls—but the result was hard to dispute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
As of last Thursday, the policing operation over the dispute had cost about £3m.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
Today, maritime disputes between Turkey and Greece and natural-gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean have drawn Greece into a closer strategic alliance with Israel who have quickly made common cause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
There were water rights, boundary disputes, astray arguments, domestic relations, paternity matters—all to be settled without force of arms.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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The row was sharpened by an earlier US suspension of drug funding after the embassy alleged theft of donated medicines, which the government disputed.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
San Jose Water Co., which serves about 1 million customers, disputed the group’s findings, saying it used “erroneously aggregated data to perform an analysis that grabs headlines.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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
United has previously disputed the accuracy of the Journal’s reporting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The origins of their language are among the most disputed questions of linguistics: for not a single other one of the world’s major languages are the affinities to other languages still in doubt.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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At Dungannon Crown Court on 3 September 2026, a defence barrister for Mariano said he was "not disputing the harm caused by this case".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
During his 2025 confirmation hearing, Bessent indicated he had used the strategy while disputing Democrats’ contention that he saved more than $900,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Education Department and her loan servicer, as well as disputing her credit report, to get the situation corrected.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 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 equation involved a certain amount of fanciful math, but there was no disputing that the cyclotron was beginning to pay its way as a producer of radioactive isotopes on an industrial scale.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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