debateable

Example Sentences

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Its debateable how many of us really need Genican, for example, a device that scans rubbish's barcodes as it is thrown away in order to build up a shopping list of replacement items.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2017

Those may be debateable ideas in isolation, but they don't plug budget holes.

From US News • Mar. 4, 2016

Legal experts have said any actions Roush took on the bench after her original appointment expired Sept. 16 could be open to challenge by litigants because the legitimacy of her reappointment was debateable.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2016

More recently, Twitter says new account verification and blocking tools have made the network safer - though it's debateable whether users have yet felt a difference.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2015

The debateable ground, if at last equally debateable as it was at first, is yet ploughed; and some after-comer may sow it with seed, and reap therefrom a plentiful harvest.

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel