in dispute

idiom

: disagreed on : being argued about
The matter/issue is still in dispute.

Examples of in dispute in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Wyandotte County was ordered to adjust its numbers to reflect agricultural use and repay any overages charged for the tax year in dispute. Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024 The vote of a sixth, the Yankton Sioux Tribe in southeastern South Dakota, is in dispute. George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024 As early as 2016, the road was in dispute and soon the conflict went to court. Nina Burleigh, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024 Advertisement Burns said the order affects more than 100 pieces of evidence but will not apply to internal records from the Sheriff’s Department’s Critical Incident Review Board that remain in dispute in a separate proceeding before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024 Other works that belonged to him are in dispute in court. Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024 The fact of the payments and the false records isn't in dispute. Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 15 Apr. 2024 The last elections were held nearly eight years ago, the constitution is in dispute, and the assassination of the last president, Jovenel Moïse, remains unsolved. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2024 Whoever was in the right, what seemed not to be in dispute was that, like many of Mr. Combs’s ventures, his association with the spirits company had fizzled. Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024

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“In dispute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20dispute. Accessed 28 May. 2024.

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