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Honduras has been disputing ownership of the tiny island of Conejo in the Gulf with El Salvador.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Dennis Kalebjian, a Fresno dentist who grows raisins on a farm built by his father and mother, has been disputing compensation for damage to his irrigation system when the state takes 2.5 acres.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2015

Your writer has been disputing it for almost as long.

From Forbes • Jan. 3, 2014

Is Paris in France, or France in Paris? for my wife has been disputing with me about it.’ 

From Memoir of Jane Austen by Austen-Leigh, James Edward