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Recent Examples of disagreement Tavares, who abruptly resigned as CEO last December due to disagreements with the board over strategy, pocketed a final 35 million euro compensation package, despite a dramatic plunge in sales and profit and broken relationships with suppliers, dealers and investors. Giulia Segreti, USA Today, 9 June 2025 All these infinite geniuses become mired in disagreements across the board. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025 Pelley noted that Murrow’s producer, Fred Friendly, went on to become president of CBS News and eventually quit in principle over a disagreement about coverage of the Vietnam War. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 7 June 2025 Politico’s Dasha Burns reported that White House advisers have scheduled a call between Musk and Trump to resolve their disagreements. Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for disagreement
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disagreement
Noun
  • Officials from the United States and China met in London to talk about a range of different disputes that are separating them.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • Phan was convicted of shooting up a high school graduation party after a dispute, killing an 18-year-old and a 15-year-old.
    Greg Wehner , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Paramount Pictures Cohen et al. give a shoutout in their introduction to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, specifically the longstanding quarrel between the people of Lilliput and Blefuscu on the best orientation for cracking an egg.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2025
  • The whole saga, with Zelenskyy risking U.S. support through his quarrel with Trump before ultimately backing down, demonstrates how unprepared the Ukrainian leader was to engage with the new administration.
    Evan Nierman, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One big difference, however, from other Universal hotels at similar price points is Helios Grand guests do not get free Universal Express Unlimited passes to cut waits at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Islands of Adventure.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 3 June 2025
  • Another notable difference is the absence of the American flag in the latest portrait.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • At the heart of the controversy over Iran’s nuclear program is its enrichment of uranium – a process used to produce fuel for power plants that, at higher levels, can also be used to make a nuclear bomb.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
  • Read Next Before payment controversy, Chief Johnny Jennings made progressive strides at CMPD June 6, 2025 11:23 AM This story was originally published June 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM.
    Maia Nehme, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The jail altercation has since escalated into a wider conflict between the Sheriff’s Office and the Broward State Attorney’s Office.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 7 June 2025
  • This wasn’t the first altercation to take place at one of Beyoncé’s recent shows.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • This is thematically tied to the internal debate at Arsenal over the No 9 position.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 6 June 2025
  • What To Know On Wednesday, nine Democratic candidates faced off in a two-hour debate.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • But Circuit Judge John Jordan issued an 18-page decision that rejected the arguments.
    News Service Of Florida, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 June 2025
  • June 26: The Supreme Court upholds parts of the ban and schedules oral arguments for October.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Seven decades later, this culture of disputation emerged as a central theme in Timothy Garton Ash’s The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness report on the Eastern European revolutions of 1989.
    Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022

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“Disagreement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disagreement. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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