debateable

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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

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

From US News • Mar. 4, 2016

Nevertheless, Operation Midland has - on the face of it - been at the centre of some debateable decisions, particularly with regard to Lord Bramall.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 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

There were for example her engagement ring and, still more debateable, certain other pre-nuptial trinkets Sir Isaac had given her.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)