debateable

Example Sentences

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The act's overall impact is debateable but it has been credited with creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, particularly in the textiles sector.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025

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

This is a borderland, where the ground is still debateable between Nature and Mind: it is the region of feeling, where the sensibility has not yet been differentiated to intelligence.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich