How to Use arbitrate in a Sentence

arbitrate

verb

• She will arbitrate the dispute.
• The council will arbitrate among the interest groups.
• It’s left to the reader, finally, to arbitrate the cost of the greater good.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
• That suit was dismissed when the parties agreed to arbitrate the claim.
  — Paige Skinner, Time, 29 July 2019
• We are gathered here, in the light of the sun, to arbitrate the tensions between conscience and law.
  — The Economist, 11 Oct. 2019
• The agency in certain cases can help arbitrate the dispute over the surprise bill.
  — Rebekah L. Sanders, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
• Shorey signed an an agreement to arbitrate any claims against Whataburger.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• USAA Bank countered that the court should compel the parties to arbitrate the dispute, as spelled out in the deposit agreement.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• This week, Berberian also agreed to allow the NFL to arbitrate a settlement in the case.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• Both sides have now agreed to arbitrate Moody’s latest claims against Worth along with the claims from Moody’s earlier suit over Stehling’s fortune.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 7 June 2019
• Two weeks after filing the lawsuit, Courtright and USC agreed to arbitrate four of his seven claims.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• The Nationals had attempted to have the case arbitrated in front of the league instead of in courts, but a New York state court denied their request in April.
  — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• This is not just some local turf war that can be arbitrated by some Pollyannaish naive do-gooders.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Schoenbeck noted that the divorce case was arbitrated and the parties agreed to certain things.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2017
• Benchmark lawyers, who had argued for trying the case in open court, said the company was willing to arbitrate parts of its complaint.
  — Tiffany Hsu and Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• New Prime argued that Mr. Oliveira was required to arbitrate his dispute.
  — Lauren Weber, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
• This is the court that, among other things, arbitrates disputes between the president and Congress.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• Otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of those paragraphs.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
• This was the sort of hyper-polarization Mr. Biden was supposed to arbitrate.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• The ruling should not affect unions that often arbitrate disputes on behalf of groups of workers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• What if a person signed a secular agreement to arbitrate under German law and now has joined a faith that prohibits that?
  — Michael J. Broyde, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• The National Mediation Board would first have to agree that talks have reached an impasse, and would then offer both sides a chance to arbitrate their dispute.
  — Alison Sider, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• That stance is anathema to the EU, which has made the free movement of people – as well as goods, capital and services – one of its bedrock principles and which relies on the court to arbitrate.
  — Steven Erlanger, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2017
• The group also arbitrates height disputes, ruling in 2013, for example, that One World Trade Center’s mast counted as a spire.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Freed from the burden of arbitrating truth, its records and lists exhibit gratuitous order — the essence of beauty.
  — Jonathan Malesic, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• O’Connor ruled that Presley never asked for any evidence of an agreement to arbitrate.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2021
• The United Nations refugee agency is trying to arbitrate.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has been left to arbitrate a host of thorny issues in the state, and has nearly always sided with Republicans.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• In practice, this would mean the end of employment arbitration because the parties hardly ever agree to arbitrate once the dispute arises.
  — Lewis L. Maltby, Fortune, 9 May 2024
• When Putin refused to arbitrate between them, Prigozhin launched a rebellion, bringing thousands of heavily armed mercenaries to the outskirts of Moscow.
  — Maksim Samorukov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024