debateable

Example Sentences

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It is however debateable whether that provision really applies in this case.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2018

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

From US News • Mar. 4, 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

Whether Richard will, like them, appeal to the mainstream pop audience is debateable, but he may well be a hit with Middle America.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2011

Still the point was debateable, and were it raised, might subject me to considerable personal inconvenience, the more so as being in command of a foreign ship of war belonging to an unacknowledged state.

From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of