dispute
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The dispute was at once personal and political.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
“The 9th Circuit simply held that it should be for the jury to resolve the factual dispute over what happened,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
An estimated three million people died in eastern India in the Bengal famine, but the nature of the wartime British prime minister's role in it has long been subject to academic dispute.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
The farm retracted those statements five days later, but continued to dispute the cause of the outbreak and contest the agency’s findings.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
One of Merton’s fundamental claims about science is that scientific knowledge is public knowledge—knowledge that has been made available for others to question, test and dispute.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing dispute
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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