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[ UK /dɪspjˈuːt/ ]
[ US /dɪˈspjut/ ]
VERB
  1. take exception to
    She challenged his claims
  2. have a disagreement over something
    These two fellows are always scrapping over something
    We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America
NOUN
  1. a disagreement or argument about something important
    there were irreconcilable differences
    the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats
    he had a dispute with his wife
  2. coming into conflict with

How To Use dispute In A Sentence

  • The acrimony of the dispute has shocked a lot of people.
  • The only defence remaining alive at present is, therefore, I suggest, the disputed decision about qualifying privilege.
  • But the process to extend his term became bogged down in a series of disputes that had raised an outside chance that Mr. Mueller's tenure would be briefly interrupted. NYT > Home Page
  • He said disputes and votes being called on the order of business were causing needless disruption.
  • In effect the accuracy of the vast majority of the series' facts could not be disputed or questioned in any way.
  • Gambians tend to be soft-spoken and gentle in demeanor, seeking to avoid noisy conflicts and striving toward quiet settlement of disputes.
  • And this is the cause that disputes with such persons are generally fruitless, especially as immixed with that intemporancy of reviling other men wherein they exceed; for if that be a way either of learning or teaching of the truth, it is what the Scripture hath not instructed us in. Pneumatologia
  • In fairness to Mr Wilkins, had he disputed that it would have been unarguable.
  • Tyson pays his respects to the last guy who beat him and Britain's undisputed world heavyweight champion.
  • he had a dispute with his wife
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