Definition of arguable
1 : not certain or clearly true : open to argument, dispute, or question an arguable point
2 : able to be plausibly or convincingly argued —used to say that there are good reasons for believing that a statement is true It's arguable that catching [in baseball] today is far more difficult than it was in the 1950s, primarily because the running game is now so dominant. — Peter Gammons
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What’s less arguable is that the Whole Foods acquisition will give Amazon a vast new array of consumer data to feed its voracious appetite for information about customer habits.
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America’s strongest partner in the Muslim world and arguable...the strongest Muslim voice.
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LeBron’s claim to greatest-player-ever might be less arguable and more quantifiable than Golden State’s claim, and slaying the mighty Warriors to deliver a second straight championship to Cleveland would feather that résumé.
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The best songs are, arguable, total collaborations between Lennon and McCartney, with the former bringing the basic song and the latter lifting it to glorious heights.
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On top of the arguable impropriety of personally profiting off of his donors’ and his party’s largesse, the situation presents perverse incentives for Trump.
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Yet femaleness is at least an arguable nuance of creations in the show by such formidable artists as Agnes Martin, Yayoi Kusama, Bridget Riley, Alma Thomas, and Lee Bontecou.
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Whether CCHIT should have such power is arguable, said Fred Trotter, co-founder of the Liberty Medical Software Foundation, a group devoted to promoting open-source EHR systems.
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circa 1611
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