How to Use open to debate in a Sentence

open to debate

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• Quite what lies at the root of that respect is open to debate.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• Which of the two means will be successful is equally open to debate.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Whether that notion has been effective or not is open to debate.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
• Whether the movie poster will survive, as a minor but compelling art form, is open to debate.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
• Whether Schultz or Mike Gesicki is the top free agent is open to debate.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2022
• Whether the protests constitute a sign of recovery is open to debate.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024
• Like all big-bucket categories, what is and isn’t a disaster movie is open to debate.
  — Harry Guinness, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2023
• What is not open to debate is the simple fact that printing money does not, by itself, create wealth.
  — Martin Leo Rivers, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• Just how popular social audio will become is still open to debate.
  — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Whether that’s essential to the plot or just another bit of cool weirdness thrown in for the heck of it is open to debate.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• Therefore the conclusion that the number is transcendent is still open to debate.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
• Then again, Dolfans could wonder the question aloud aimed at their newborn in a crib and find the answer open to debate.
  — Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
• How much the crypto explosion has helped Rockdale’s economy is open to debate.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• Whether the poll results are on par with actual human responses is certainly open to debate.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
• Whether or not Trump has good reason, as Cheeseman puts it, to shut down TikTok is open to debate.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 8 Aug. 2020
• How much trouble is open to debate, but there’s no denying this season has been a disappointing one for the north London club.
  — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• This imprecision means that exactly what conditions are like on the planet's surface remain open to debate.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
• Synthetic diamond prices have now collapsed, though how much of that is down to De Beers and how much is because of a flood of new supply is open to debate.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune Europe, 4 June 2024
• Most people would agree that a statement that someone or something is racist or sexist is, in many cases, open to debate—there is no litmus test for discrimination.
  — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Or is is because Hansen has engaged in subjective conversations about future scenarios, which are very much open to debate?
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2010
• Whether this can be done in an economic and environmentally responsible manner is open to debate.
  — Philip T. Pienkos, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
• But an interpolation, in which a musical or lyrical element of one song is replayed in a different song, is often more open to debate.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 16 June 2022
• When an authority is actively suppressing or punishing speech itself, the space open to debate gets much smaller very quickly.
  — Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
• Granted, this is open to debate, but the Bruins, even in the hours following their most recent loss, have the most identifiable roster among the town’s four major sports.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
• Whether this makes the movie an innately feminist work or, as some detractors have claimed, a superficial girlboss narrative is certainly open to debate.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• That’s likely due to changing levels of methane, a warming greenhouse gas, Mitri says, adding that the exact cause of cooling and warming on Titan is open to debate.
  — Erica Naone, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• Before the Russia-Ukraine War conflict, those statues that never left became a fixture of an old world, open to debate and even respectful sport.
  — Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Whether that was meant to pump themselves up or intimidate the competition is open to debate, but either way, it was not appreciated, at least not by their rivals on the Uli tribe.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
• While the main actors are excellent, the gains from not just making a documentary instead of this hybrid form, or from multiplying the running time by 10, are open to debate.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• How to dial down those tensions is open to debate, with some policy experts stressing that this show of strength remains the best deterrence for North Korean aggression.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024