contestable

Example Sentences

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Although the definition of the upper middle class is contestable, a glance at standard income tables shows that their story is broadly correct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

"Some journalists seem to feel instinctively that debt is simply bad, full stop, and don't appear to realise this can be contested and contestable."

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2023

The levy was seen as a fairer fund-collecting mechanism than a general price adjustment clause that would allow suppliers themselves to pass price increases on to customers, which experts see as legally contestable.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2022

With no lapping floodwaters or smoking buildings, the tragedy becomes contestable to a degree that a natural disaster or terrorist attack cannot be.

From Salon • May 9, 2022

Postmodernists often assume that because facts are expressed in language they are inherently contestable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton