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disputing

adjective as in quarreling

adjective as in rival

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A multipolar world with clashing economic systems is producing more trade disputes, tariffs, and uncertainty.

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Four people were shot at a lounge bar because of a dispute between two groups of people.

“We knew we would be under a microscope from day one,” said Peter Antonacci, the election supervisor in Florida’s Broward County, where disputes over signatures on mail ballots in 2018 led to recounts and a slew of lawsuits.

A woman in a third vehicle, who was unaffiliated with either of the vehicles involved in the dispute, was struck by a bullet, he said.

Republicans still challenged results in 11 states and kept the dispute going for months, but the only result was Nixon losing Hawaii to Kennedy.

There is no disputing that sometimes life takes a dramatic change.

There was still no disputing the answer Bloomberg furnished to the question he then posed.

They view the tax people as disputing whether what they're doing is real work.

Had the gifts to Edwards bought yard signs or radio advertising, there'd be no disputing their campaign purpose.

Andrew Sullivan posted a letter today from a reader disputing the oft-heard statistic of 20 million Rush Limbaugh listeners.

It would be like opening the windows upon a stuffy, overcrowded and unventilated room of disputing people.

He sets out, and on his journey finds a lion, a wolf, and a falcon disputing over the carcase of a horse.

It tried to follow him beyond the grave, disputing his right to make a will and denying him burial in consecrated ground.

Considering the uncertainty in which we are left by both text and commentary, the best we can do is to adore without disputing.

If without witness and bonds he has given on deposit, and where he has deposited they keep disputing him, this case has no remedy.

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On this page you'll find 170 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disputing, such as: anti, antithetical, averse, disputed, hostile, and inimical.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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