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verb

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as in to debate
to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion in an extended session the city council disputed the need for a new high school

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Recent Examples of dispute
Noun
Formerly the county’s largest shelter, Camillus House and the Homeless Trust had a falling out late last year over a bed-pricing dispute. Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025 Swift's spokesperson also criticized the earlier attempt to pull her into the dispute. Bryan West, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
Experts say violence is on both sides Experts — including data analysts and political scientists — disputed this Republican rhetoric, according to previous reporting by McClatchy News. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025 Despite this, Balaji’s family has continued to dispute the suicide finding, alleging investigative lapses, possible deleted or missing surveillance footage, and a lack of transparency from officials. Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dispute
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispute
Noun
  • Purdy has his share of critics, and such critics may claim that continued fine play from Jones could set up a bit of a quarterback controversy in San Francisco.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Skip to content One summer in Brooklyn, a controversy broke out in my dog-park group chat.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, lovers’ quarrels or difficulty dealing with children (hissy fits or meltdowns) might occur.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The outcome of that long-simmering family quarrel is never really in much doubt, but there are still a few neat surprises involving a couple of rare bottles of whiskey and the fate of two family businesses.
    Stephen Farber, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, local authorities later said the individual had been questioned and released.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Republican and Democratic lawmakers questioned the tactics after the earlier strike.
    George Petras, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jennifer Aniston’s Alex Levy, Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson, and the other members of The Morning Show’s newsroom and its network are once again bickering and backstabbing.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Coaches are also bickering about money, a topic that would have felt out of place 10 years ago.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Even the assassination of political figures is not the same thing as just being shot in the throat for the crime of debating issues in the public square.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 13 Sep. 2025
  • As the Fed debates its next move, remember that Warren Buffett isn’t trying to guess tomorrow’s stock chart.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • According to him, advances in machine learning have yanked questions once trapped inside theological/philosophical disputations into corporate board packs.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Student accused of mocking Charlie Kirk death Camryn Giselle Booker, a student at Texas Tech University, was arrested on charges of assault after an altercation with students mourning the death of Charlie Kirk.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Campus police arrested a student at Texas Tech University in connection to an altercation with students who were mourning the death of Charlie Kirk, officials confirmed.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement By the time of the civil rights movement, broader social and cultural changes had strengthened individuals’ sense of personal liberty, and activism challenged policy brutality and discretionary overreach.
    Time, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Encouraging private employers to fire people for expressing certain viewpoints risks encouraging viewpoint discrimination, chilling free speech, and may improperly challenge state laws that protect speech and off-duty conduct.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Dispute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispute. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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