contestable
Example Sentences
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The pool of contestable seats could shrink further.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
"Having been made final, the Award is no longer contestable and is beyond compromise."
From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2023
"Some journalists seem to feel instinctively that debt is simply bad, full stop, and don't appear to realise this can be contested and contestable."
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2023
“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
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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