as in to decide
to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)
will arbitrate the dispute between the company and the labor union
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Recent Examples of arbitrate
Our borders, if not strictly arbitrary, were certainly arbitrated by outsiders during colonialism, and fixed on the map only six decades ago.
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Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
In these cases, your matchmaker arbitrates disputes.
—Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025
Normally, Maduro is able to arbitrate disputes between his captains.
—Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
The 47th president has regularly tested the limits of executive power, setting up confrontations that the courts are likely to be arbitrating for months and years ahead.
—Susan Page, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
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Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
In these cases, your matchmaker arbitrates disputes.
—Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025
Normally, Maduro is able to arbitrate disputes between his captains.
—Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
The 47th president has regularly tested the limits of executive power, setting up confrontations that the courts are likely to be arbitrating for months and years ahead.
—Susan Page, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arbitrate
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Those include the major questions doctrine, which says Congress needs to give clear authorization for federal agencies to decide issues of major economic significance, and the nondelegation doctrine, which holds that Congress can't delegate its legislative power to the executive branch.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
29 May 2025
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In a thousand-year-old sport where a split second can decide everything, two months will probably feel like an eternity.—
Matt Moret,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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They were welcomed into the world at 29 weeks and spent some time in NICU before settling into their home with their two brothers, who are now two and four years old.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Instead, the zoning dispute will be settled in court.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
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Participants will wade in the creek, kicking the gravel bottom to release aquatic animals to identify and determine water quality of the creek.—
Flip Putthoff,
Arkansas Online,
20 May 2025
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While the results of the analyses will help determine the truth of Fourmanoir’s claims, one other possibility remains: The portrait could be a collaborative work by both Gauguin and Ky-Dong.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 May 2025
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That letter decried the role of the ECtHR in adjudicating matters related to deportation and surveillance of migrants, among other matters.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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The federal bureaucracy will have to expand drastically to adjudicate the 3.5 million children born here every year.—
James Thomas Snyder,
Mercury News,
24 May 2025
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The German model joined the show in 2013 and judged on Seasons 8-13.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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Joe has written extensively on wines and spirits and judged many of the leading international wines and spirits competitions.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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“Arbitrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arbitrate. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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