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contestable







ADJECTIVE
prosecutable
Synonyms




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The pool of contestable seats could shrink further.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

“A ranking is the product of innumerable and contestable design choices,” Miles wrote to his students on Nov. 23.

From Washington Post Dec. 3, 2022

The levy was seen as a fairer fund-collecting mechanism than a general price adjustment clause that would allow suppliers themselves to pass price increases on to customers, which experts see as legally contestable.

From Reuters Aug. 3, 2022

With no lapping floodwaters or smoking buildings, the tragedy becomes contestable to a degree that a natural disaster or terrorist attack cannot be.

From Salon May 9, 2022

Postmodernists often assume that because facts are expressed in language they are inherently contestable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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