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dispute
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dispute as in:  their border dispute

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The area has long been a source of dispute between India and Pakistan.
dispute = disagreement
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    We have a procedure for handling these kinds of disputes.
    disputes = disagreements
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    She had a dispute with her landlord about whether the noise was unreasonable at a party she hosted.
    dispute = disagreement, argument, or conflict
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    Her claim is beyond dispute.
    beyond dispute = argument
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    The lawyer will record your response in case of a dispute.  (source)
    dispute = disagreement
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    And all the great disputes of paleontology were carried out in this fashion—including the bitter debate, in which Grant was a key figure, about whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded.  (source)
    disputes = disagreements or arguments
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    That Harriet Monroe also loved Root seems beyond dispute.†  (source)
    beyond dispute = so well established that it cannot be realistically challenged or argued about
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    [5] This is perhaps the least understood sentence in the poem, almost every word being open to dispute†  (source)
    open to dispute = subject to challenge or argument
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    He claimed that Zahid Khan had been shot because of a dispute over property.  (source)
    dispute = argument
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    He was called upon to arbitrate disputes as though he were an unofficial judge, and Rebecca also enjoyed the high opinion most people had for him.  (source)
    disputes = disagreements
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    "There are discrepancies that are beyond dispute," says Simon.†  (source)
    beyond dispute = so well established that it cannot be realistically challenged or argued about
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    Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in.  (source)
    dispute = disagreement
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    For a second none of us said anything, and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal.  (source)
    disputes = disagreements or arguments
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    Grim first half is beyond dispute.†  (source)
    beyond dispute = so well established that it cannot be realistically challenged or argued about
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dispute as in:  She disputes his claim.

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She disputes her landlord's claim that the music was that loud.
disputes = challenges
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    She disputes his claim.
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    Do you dispute the allegation?
    dispute = challenge, or argue that it is not true
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    But if the Oracle said that my son should be killed I would neither dispute it nor be the one to do it.  (source)
    dispute = challenge
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    The Cunninghams married the Coninghams until the spelling of the names was academic— academic until a Cunningham disputed a Coningham over land titles and took to the law.  (source)
    disputed = challenged
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    There's no disputing what we found.  (source)
    disputing = challenging (arguing about)
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    The Admiral doesn't exactly own the Graveyard, but his management is undisputed, and he answers to no one but himself.  (source)
    undisputed = not challenged
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undisputed means not and reverses the meaning of disputed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Oak looked from one to the other of the disputants, and fell into a reverie.†  (source)
    disputants = those involved in challenging, arguing about, or fighting over something
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    With all due respect, Signore, you'll have to convince me," Nicolo challenged, thinking, awakening, ready for ten hours of disputation.†  (source)
    disputation = a debate or formal argument
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Who were these common resentful farmers to dispute his royal right?  (source)
    dispute = challenge (argue that it is not valid)
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    Have you recorded your wise disputations?†  (source)
    disputations = debates or formal arguments
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    "But are you not," he said, "a more fiendish disputant than the Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus Twelve, the Magic and Indefatigable?"†  (source)
    disputant = someone involved in challenging, arguing about, or fighting over something
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    Well, should we set aside the more disputable point whether for various reasons it was possible to anchor the fleet, then plausibly enough the Benthamites of war may urge the above.†  (source)
    disputable = able to be challenged
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Among the surprises of the unfolding drama, as tensions increased, was the extent to which the ardent, disputatious John Adams held himself in rein, proving when need be a model of civility and self-restraint, even of patience.†  (source)
    disputatious = inclined to challenge or argue
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