debateable

Example Sentences

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It is however debateable whether that provision really applies in this case.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2018

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

This will embrace a sufficient variety of types, both natural and ideal, to prevent imitation, and will avoid the debateable ground of modern art.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)