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Idioms and Phrases

Disagreed about, in controversy. For example, This parcel of land is in dispute, claimed by several persons , or The origin of this phrase is in dispute . [Mid-1600s]

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Children’s eyes glazed over at “The Phantom Menace’s” opening crawl: “The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.”

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With the very meaning of those categories in dispute, legal experts said it set the protections of one group against the protections of another.

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“The detainees’ rights against summary removal are not currently in dispute,” the court said.

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Project Rise tried to muster a bid last summer but what happened next is in dispute.

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Gibson's legal right to tell jokes, no matter how tasteless, is not in dispute.

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indisputable indissoluble

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