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noun

disagreement

CEFR B1

a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

In a sentence

Six example sentences with disagreement, each labelled with its topic.

  • A quiet disagreement over pricing split the partners, and by March they were running two separate companies.

    Business

  • The quartet's long disagreement about tempo ended when the cellist simply refused to play the passage any faster.

    Music

  • A public disagreement between two labs about the same measurement pushed a third group to repeat the whole experiment.

    Science

  • Epistemologists ask what a person should believe when a disagreement arises between two equally informed peers.

    Philosophy

  • A disagreement over the pipeline route stalled the coalition talks for six weeks and nearly ended them.

    Politics

  • A disagreement between the two referees about the foul call led to a review that lasted four minutes.

    Basketball

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