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arbitrate

[ahr-bi-treyt] / ˈɑr bɪˌtreɪt /


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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

The program also includes legal benefits, including the ability to arbitrate disputes abroad at independent tribunals.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

The complexities mean courts and tribunals have frequently been called on to arbitrate.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2025

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

Beloved had sat down with her and Redemption during their first big fight, when they were thirteen, to arbitrate.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

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

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

From Slate Sep. 14, 2017

McDonald’s said the suit was being filed with the administrative court, which arbitrates in governance disputes in Italy.

From The Guardian Nov. 7, 2016

He is not just who arbitrates by will.

From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Frank Lee Woodward

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

Finally, in 1872, with Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm arbitrating, the San Juan Islands were granted to the United States.

From Seattle Times May 16, 2024

The academy, charged with coining Hebrew words to keep up with the times and maintaining grammatical standards, finds itself arbitrating between linguistic anarchy and societal change.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2022

Other kinds of transportation workers who typically do not cross state lines may use Monday's decision to argue that they also are exempt from arbitrating wage lawsuits.

From Reuters Jun. 6, 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 Fox News Sep. 10, 2021

We're always arbitrating now, and giving everything away.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand




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