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dispute

[dih-spyoot] / dɪˈspjut /




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This week, Quentin Fottrell — The Moneyist — attempted to mediate a dispute between a married couple, over how to allocate their cash: Should they pay down debt, or invest?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The legal dispute stunned Hollywood, where the only thing people take more seriously than content security is their relationships with major studios.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Lechevallier had been selected by French President Emmanuel Macron to replace the previous envoy, Laurent Bili, over the summer, but his appointment was thrown into limbo after a dispute stemming from the UN.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

We know there was a dispute about rent.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The contentment of the does spread to everyone else, until one evening Hazel remarked that he felt a perfect fraud as Chief Rabbit, for there were no problems and hardly a dispute to be settled.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Aevex disputes a report that the Navy halted drone-boat orders, while Wall Street analysts see room for a recovery.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Bass says the LAX project began before she took office, and regarding disputes that led to delays, “we pushed for a settlement so there would be a firm finish line.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Midnight matches and money disputes - why is tennis schedule such a headache?

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Barrick Mining last year reached a $420 million settlement to regain control of a mine in Mali after two years of disputes over taxes and a new mining code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

I was thankful there was this spirit of amity; we were neither of us anxious to engage in futile disputes.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Holmes and Robach disputed this claim in 2023, noting in their podcast they were both in the process of divorcing their exes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Action disputed the assertion in the Medicaid guidelines that treatment intensity doesn’t correlate with outcomes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

This isn’t the first time Arthur has disputed her daughter’s claims.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Earlier this year, Earthwatch Europe said its volunteers collected evidence that the presence of metals could harm aquatic life - findings that were disputed by the EA.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Lord Willum's sons Josua and Elyas disputed heatedly about who would be first over the walls of King's Landing.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

If reality truly is nothing more than a hallucination, dream or computer screensaver in the brain, why should we waste time disputing it?

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

The group has been disputing those allegations in court filings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 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

First, there was no disputing the importance of the discoveries in the New World, for the simple reason that they had become matters of state, the concern of kings.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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