dispute
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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
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
A "working group" is trying to resolve the dispute, with Washington seeking a greater military presence, but an agreement has not yet been reached.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
We called her “Madame” because she was French or Belgian—there was a dispute as to which—and that was what the guardians always called her.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vocabulary lists containing dispute
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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