Thesaurus / debatable
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It’s debatable how strongly a culture of social conformism can impact technological innovation, and of course there can be exceptions.
CHINA WANTS TO BE THE WORLD’S AI SUPERPOWER. DOES IT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?VANESSA BATES RAMIREZJANUARY 17, 2021SINGULARITY HUB It’s debatable, of course, just how much Fox News can do at this point to stop that madness that it has spent decades nursing.
NEWT GINGRICH’S BLATANT HYPOCRISYERIK WEMPLEJANUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt’s debatable whether the on-field results would have been much different.
NFL WEEK 10 POWER RANKINGS: SAINTS MOVE UP ON THE HEELS OF THE STEELERS AND CHIEFSMARK MASKENOVEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThey took over at the New Orleans 21-yard line and were handed a first down at the 1 on a debatable pass interference call against the Saints in the end zone.
TOM BRADY AND THE BUCS WERE NO MATCH, AGAIN, FOR DREW BREES AND THE SAINTSMARK MASKENOVEMBER 9, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIn the audiobook “Fauci,” veteran journalist Michael Specter does not soar over the bar, and it is debatable whether his work can best be termed a biography, though it contains many biographical elements.
FAMILIAR FAUCI ANECDOTES, TOLD WITH A BROOKLYN ACCENTAMY GOLDSTEINOCTOBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTFour days since Baron Gaston went upon the debatable land to lay a hound; with him only Gaspar, the huntsman.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISTergawar has always been a land of war, even when it was not a debatable land between Turkey and Persia.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAMThe debatable question is, was the "demon," or the actual expanse of sky, first in evolution?
MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION, VOL. 1ANDREW LANGAnd they are great on 'Salix;' and have a good many quarrels over that and other debatable subjects too.
KATHARINE FRENSHAMBEATRICE HARRADENWhether Russia is a place to go is another of those debatable questions and I feel that the same conclusion holds good.
WHEN WINTER COMES TO MAIN STREETGRANT MARTIN OVERTONWORDS RELATED TO DEBATABLE
- ambivalent
- betwixt and between
- blowing hot and cold
- borderline
- debatable
- divided
- hemming and hawing
- hesitant
- iffy
- impartial
- in the middle
- indecisive
- irresolute
- neutral
- not definite
- not sure
- of two minds
- open
- running hot and cold
- tentative
- torn
- uncertain
- unclear
- uncommitted
- undetermined
- unsure
- up in the air
- waffling
- wavering
- wishy-washy
- ambiguous
- apocryphal
- arguable
- contingent
- controversial
- controvertible
- cryptic
- debatable
- disputable
- dubious
- dubitable
- enigmatic
- equivocal
- fishy
- hard to believe
- hypothetical
- iffy
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- moot
- mysterious
- obscure
- occult
- open to doubt
- open to question
- oracular
- paradoxical
- problematic
- problematical
- provisional
- shady
- suspect
- suspicious
- unconfirmed
- undefined
- under advisement
- under examination
- unproven
- unreliable
- unsettled
- vague
- borderline
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- different
- disputable
- doubtable
- dubious
- equivocal
- farfetched
- funny
- irregular
- not kosher
- open
- open to doubt
- open to question
- out of line
- overt
- peculiar
- phony
- problematic
- queer
- questionable
- reaching
- rings untrue
- shady
- shaky
- suspect
- too much
- uncertain
- uncommon
- unsure
- unusual
- won't wash
- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- clouded
- contingent
- debatable
- dicey
- disreputable
- doubtable
- dubious
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fat chance
- fishy
- hazardous
- hazy
- iffy
- improbable
- impugnable
- inconclusive
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- insecure
- long shot
- obscure
- on thin ice
- open
- pending
- precarious
- problematic
- questionable
- shady
- sneaky
- speculative
- suspect
- suspicious
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- uncertain
- unconfirmed
- undecided
- uneasy
- unlikely
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsure
- up for grabs
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