debatable
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America will remain immensely powerful, but its ability and willingness to act in this way seems increasingly debatable.
From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026
Whether seeing a film like this in a theater will do any more than remind audiences how little things have changed is debatable.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
The environmentalist arguments against dredging are at best debatable, if not easily refuted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
And he wanted to show that the state Supreme Court’s ruling that Pitchford’s lawyer had waived relief was not merely debatable but unreasonable even by the AEDPA’s demanding standards.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
Now the construction of Hugh’s X-ray camera was completed, and soon he hoped to get experimental evidence to settle the debatable points.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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