disputable

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The statement is roughly as disputable as saying that fire is hot or water is wet.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2022

Its effectiveness is scarcely disputable: The Commonwealth Fund estimates that the vaccine averted about 1.1 million American deaths from COVID-19 and more than 10.3 million hospitalizations this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2021

How accountable are we for high school actions, when this is clearly a disputable high school action?

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2018

Afghanistan has long been called the “graveyard of empires” — for so long that it is unclear who coined that disputable term.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2017

Next come in questions of criticism and taste, with their recondite and disputable premisses, and the usual deductions from them, so subtle and difficult to follow.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry