contestable
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It was a system for making the origins of knowledge visible and therefore contestable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
But Everton had justification to dispute both of the spot-kick calls that went against them, with Wheeler on the wrong side of two very contestable decisions.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024
“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
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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