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[ahr-bi-trayt] / ˈɑr bɪˌtreɪt /


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The board will apparently act as a sort of ombudsman that will arbitrate disputes between employees and management regarding “alleged reporting bias or failure to meet agreed reporting fairness standards.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The data on which image recognition and generative models are based rely on statistics and probability to arbitrate the truth.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

He said the review did not and “could not arbitrate on whether or not Israel has breached international humanitarian law”.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

The new law will take effect when it’s published in the country’s official bulletin, at which time courts will no longer arbitrate what journalists can write.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

He took charge, stripping away the right to strike and appointing Judge Samuel Alschuler as federal administrator to arbitrate all disputes between the packers and the union.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Bodner challenged his firing soon after with Finra, which arbitrates employment disputes brought by brokers and advisers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

He arbitrates disputes, much like any TV judge, but his show lacks the self-serious demeanor of other shows that try to replicate a real-life courtroom, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2022

So the Advisory Commission, which arbitrates between the victims of spoliation and the holders of disputed cultural property, is often claimants’ only recourse.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2021

Instead, they’re pushing for a complete overhaul of the system by which the university arbitrates sexual harassment claims.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2017

It bothered her; she didn't know whether it was impudence or admiration; but when a woman arbitrates on a case she is interested in, she always gives an award in her own favour.

From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Harvey’s a former New Jersey Attorney General who has arbitrated other league cases.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

Apart from stating that arbitrated payments to publishers must be made in lump sums, the new amendments also clarify that the panel must consider costs incurred by the platforms and by the news businesses.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2021

One thing that’s clear is that these questions probably aren’t best arbitrated through firings or resignations freighted with symbolic meaning, or hashed out inside the human resources department.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2021

In addition to sports, Mr. Nicolau arbitrated disputes in aviation, communications and entertainment.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2020

I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople’s grievances and arbitrated and ruled.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Plaintiffs attorneys, legislators and patients say that Kaiser’s private and confidential process for arbitrating legal disputes over medical care still has key flaws that favor Kaiser over patients bringing malpractice cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

But in 1815, with Pope Pius VII arbitrating restitution demands, the French, did give Italy a painting in exchange — not “The Wedding Feast,” but Charles Le Brun’s “The Feast in the House of Simon.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

For more than a decade, “Judge Judy” has been syndication’s most popular show with the tart-talking New Yorker arbitrating small claims cases.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

The newly-founded United Nations generally failed to prevent the outbreak of war despite its nominal goal of arbitrating peaceful solutions for international problems.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

By arbitrating all the day With great dramatic power.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. by Various


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