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
The ecstasies of attraction are sublimated into their long conversations about Boethius and Hildegard von Bingen, or about the suddenly debatable issues of contraception and clerical celibacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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
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
Whether an avid hunter with poor eyesight posed no danger to anyone was debatable, in Penelope’s view.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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