disputable

Example Sentences

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The statement is roughly as disputable as saying that fire is hot or water is wet.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2022

Its effectiveness is scarcely disputable: The Commonwealth Fund estimates that the vaccine averted about 1.1 million American deaths from COVID-19 and more than 10.3 million hospitalizations this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2021

Tampa Bay’s third power-play goal of the game was set up after a disputable tripping penalty called against Stars captain Jamie Benn.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2020

How accountable are we for high school actions, when this is clearly a disputable high school action?

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2018

Thus, the presumed mutual intercourse, and reciprocal correspondence between Ideas and words is a very disputable conclusion.

From On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence by Haslam, John