How to Use in dispute in a Sentence

in dispute

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  • The fact of the payments and the false records isn't in dispute.
    Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Background: The fate of the house has been in dispute for months.
    Mike Baker, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • One of the key facts in dispute in the lawsuit is who was driving the skid steer.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • As early as 2016, the road was in dispute and soon the conflict went to court.
    Nina Burleigh, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024
  • What isn’t in dispute is that Huntsville metro workers are the highest paid in the state.
    Scott Turner | Sturner@al.com, al, 5 June 2023
  • The most essential facts of the case, after all, are not in dispute.
    Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Other works that belonged to him are in dispute in court.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Were the very basics of verifiable truths going to be in dispute for the length of the Trump era?
    TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The number of casualties has been in dispute, but ranges in the dozens.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The grazing area in dispute covers about 108 square miles.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • What to know The legal lines in the Kroger-Albertsons merger are drawn: What is in dispute?
    The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • There are still many details in dispute about the shooting that occurred about 4 p.m. in the 200 block of Madison Street NW.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The direction at which Jefferson pointed the gun at the time that Dean fired is in dispute.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Also in dispute is whether the plaintiffs can even challenge the approval process for a drug that has been on the market for 23 years.
    Abbie Vansickle and Pam Belluck, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Also in dispute is whether the plaintiffs can even challenge the approval process for a drug that has been on the market for 23 years.
    Abbie Vansickle and Pam Belluck, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • That eight years had passed since the events in dispute hamstrung her ability to mount a defense.
    Peggy Little, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Assets that have been transferred to his former wife will be in dispute.
    Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The state froze the Senecas’ bank accounts to force the tribe to turn over $564 million in gambling revenue — money that had been in dispute for four years.
    Jay Root, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • The specifics of the WGA’s proposal stirred debate, even among guild members, but the need for the guild to protect its flank was never in dispute.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Here is what is not in dispute: One, real GDP is contracting and appears to have been for half a year now.
    The Editors, National Review, 29 July 2022
  • The fact that Joe Biden is the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election is not in dispute.
    Chris Lehman | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2022
  • In the Senate, the Liberal Party won eight of the twenty-seven seats in dispute.
    Vanessa Barbara, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Wolfe fans have spent four decades debating the meaning of Book of the New Sun, but many of the story’s basic plot points remain in dispute.
    Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The term limit rule in dispute, which was approved by the City Council in 2017, applies to the three board members picked by fund members.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Edinbyrd, who was present at the birth, said Mila's parentage is not in dispute and said that the family does not know the people on the form.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • That Hunts Point is highly vulnerable to flooding is not in dispute—nor is the fact that the risk keeps getting worse.
    Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The lawsuit is asking a judge for declaratory relief and to determine that the resort is the rightful over of the land in dispute.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 26 July 2023
  • Much of what happened during the arrests remains in dispute.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • While Marvel’s success since then is not in dispute, at the time the idea of Disney chasing young men via the comic book brand was seen as a real risk.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The first part, looking at how Baldwin voted on the deal, is the most straightforward part of the claim – and nothing about it is really in dispute.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024

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