dispute
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Yet rental providers dispute that holiday lets are to blame for rising house prices.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Traders signing up to the scheme will need to demonstrate certain standards of customer service, transparency and dispute resolution.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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
The decadelong dispute between AI-tech mogul Chey Tae-won and his ex-wife Roh Soh-yeong has unfolded like a K-drama—with money, romance, corruption and betrayal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The dispute raged for years and grew extremely heated.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
In 1982 lawmakers set up the nationwide Federal Circuit to hear specialized appeals, such as patent disputes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Quintanilla family is taking their personal disputes to the public.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
An Oura spokesperson said the company disputes the allegation and said its sleep-stage estimates have been “validated.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
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UC has disputed the federal findings at its campuses and said the university system complies with federal and state laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer disputed that, saying the U.S. wanted to ensure cheap aluminum and steel, such as from China, didn’t enter the U.S. from Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Penguin has disputed, external that account, saying it "remained keen and willing to publish the book" while the "relevant discussions" were going on.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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
“Well, a hundred tears or one,” the woman said, obviously cross to have her account disputed, “when her tear fell on the wall, the part it touched just collapsed—as if crushed by her sorrow.”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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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
She details the exhausting effort of disputing her partner’s medical claims with insurance companies, which required her to navigate, in her words, “a stingy and Kafkaesque system of financial and social support.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
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
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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