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dispute
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Marley & Me
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- Then one night he settled the dispute once and for all.
p. 116.8 *dispute = disagreement
- They wanted to dispute the central premise of my report, the part in which I insisted Marley was the world's worst-behaved animal.
p. 283.4 *dispute = challenge (argue that it was not true that)
- During the weeks leading up to her due date, Jenny and I had had long strategy talks about how best to acclimate Marley to the new arrival who would instantly knock him off his until-now undisputed perch as Most Favored Dependent.†
p. 107.2undisputed = not challenged, argued about, or fought overstandard 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict
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(2)
(dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)