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dispute

[dih-spyoot] / dɪˈspyut /




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During the HBO show’s fifth season, Soprano spent months consulting with top divorce attorneys, creating a potential conflict of interest that prevented those lawyers from representing his wife Carmela in the dispute.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

However, after his mother sued him this year over a property dispute -- what he called his "breaking point" -- Siranudh decided to speak out and is now planning to pursue legal action.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

Instead, it transforms the dispute into a visual narrative of dominance and disposal, an opponent not debated, but discarded.

From Salon • May 23, 2026

Smith, a dispute over capital punishment that was poised to be one of the most important cases of the term.

From Slate • May 23, 2026

In this dispute the question of the relative merits of ancient and modern science was at first entirely secondary.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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