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

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