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debatable

/dih-bey-tuh-buhl/US // dɪˈbeɪ tə bəl //UK // (dɪˈbeɪtəbəl) //

有待商榷,值得商榷,值得商榷的是,值得商榷的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : open to question; in dispute; doubtful: Whether or not he is qualified for the job is debatable.
    • : capable of being debated.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.controversial

Examples

  • It’s debatable how strongly a culture of social conformism can impact technological innovation, and of course there can be exceptions.

  • It’s debatable, of course, just how much Fox News can do at this point to stop that madness that it has spent decades nursing.

  • It’s debatable whether the on-field results would have been much different.

  • They took over at the New Orleans 21-yard line and were handed a first down at the 1 on a debatable pass interference call against the Saints in the end zone.

  • In the audiobook “Fauci,” veteran journalist Michael Specter does not soar over the bar, and it is debatable whether his work can best be termed a biography, though it contains many biographical elements.

  • Though this too is debatable given that 25,000 to 40,000 people a year die of influenza—the vast majority of them unvaccinated.

  • Some people may have thought that was worth the trade off; That's a debatable point.

  • Yet his narrative is gripping, perceptive, and moving at times, even if his conclusions are highly debatable.

  • Whether he would actually want to pay for the changes he calls for is debatable.

  • Whether history will repeat itself in that regard is debatable.

  • Four days since Baron Gaston went upon the debatable land to lay a hound; with him only Gaspar, the huntsman.

  • Tergawar has always been a land of war, even when it was not a debatable land between Turkey and Persia.

  • The debatable question is, was the "demon," or the actual expanse of sky, first in evolution?

  • And they are great on 'Salix;' and have a good many quarrels over that and other debatable subjects too.

  • Whether Russia is a place to go is another of those debatable questions and I feel that the same conclusion holds good.