Sample Sentences for
dispute
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(editor-reviewed)

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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    Atticus was proceeding amiably, as if he were involved in a title 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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    "There are discrepancies that are beyond dispute," says Simon.†  (source)
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    The lawyer will record your response in case of a dispute.  (source)
    dispute = disagreement
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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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    Grim first half is beyond dispute.†  (source)
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    Our duty is not to blame this man or to praise that, but to settle the dispute.  (source)
    dispute = disagreement
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    Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defense of the farm.  (source)
    disputes = disagreements
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    But this was politics—the premium was on strategy, not intellectual consistency—and the effectiveness of Lincoln's campaign is beyond dispute.†  (source)
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    Why should a girl's life be ruined to settle a dispute she had nothing to do with?  (source)
    dispute = disagreement
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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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    Who were these common resentful farmers to dispute his royal right?  (source)
    dispute = challenge (argue that it is not valid)
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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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    Without disputing a truth so momentous, we must be allowed to consider this version of Mr. Dimmesdale's story as only an instance of that stubborn fidelity with which a man's friends—and especially a clergyman's—will sometimes uphold his character, when proofs, clear as the mid-day sunshine on the scarlet letter, establish him a false and sin-stained creature of the dust.  (source)
    disputing = challenging
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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)
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    I think first of all that he felt the whole Church of Reason was irreversibly in the arena of logic, that when one put oneself outside logical disputation, one put oneself outside any academic consideration whatsoever.†  (source)
    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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    In the meantime we will not dispute about them.  (source)
    dispute = argue
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    Have you recorded your wise disputations?†  (source)
    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)
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    He certainly looked at her friend a great deal, but the expression of that look was disputable.†  (source)
    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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    to whom I lent the aspect, disputatious, solemn and mediaeval, of some character in one of the old romances.†  (source)
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