The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word WRANGLE
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More clues leading to the result WRANGLE
- Limits to wider view in dispute
- Argue with one interpretation of ninety degrees?
- Row from wide river bend
- In war, not a point of view to dispute
- Debate extremes of weather with fish
- Wife called; left message, ending in noisy argument
- There’s little right in fiddle creating dispute
- Land with craft, repressing resistance to row
- Craftily get around monarch in dispute
- Dispute produced by Republican in crafty exercise
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The straight part
We know that "dispute" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dispute = wrangle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does WRANGLE mean?
WRANGLE noun- An act of wrangling.
- An angry dispute.
- To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
- To herd (horses or other livestock); to supervise, manage (people).
- To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.